Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, the first of her Neapolitan Novels, follows the lifelong bond between narrator Elena Greco and the fierce, brilliant Lila Cerullo, who grow up in a poor neighborhood of Naples in the 1950s. Translated by Ann Goldstein, it traces the rivalry, ambition, and love between two girls as they push against the limits of their world, and the friendship that shapes them both.
Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, the first of her Neapolitan Novels, follows the lifelong bond between narrator Elena Greco and the fierce, brilliant Lila Cerullo, who grow up in a poor neighborhood of Naples in the 1950s. Translated by Ann Goldstein, it traces the rivalry, ambition, and love between two girls as they push against the limits of their world, and the friendship that shapes them both.
