My Brilliant Friend

Name: My Brilliant Friend
Author: Elena Ferrante

by Elena Ferrante

Coming-of-age story of two girls' intense friendship in postwar Naples

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Elena Ferrante

Pseudonymous Italian author whose Neapolitan Novels, beginning with My Brilliant Friend, became a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Her fierce, unsparing fiction explores female friendship, ambition, and the violence of social forces in Naples.

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