Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.
My Brilliant Friend is a modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, Elena Ferrante. My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense story about two friends, Lila and Elena and the abandoned wives who take care of them. Soon to be a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino starring Dakota Johnson and Armie Hammer:
It’s hard to imagine a book as immersive and captivating as Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend. This modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors is a rich, intense and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. It is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship – despite all our differences, the threads of blood and friendship bind us together.
Masterpiece of Italian literature, My Brilliant Friend is a modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, Elena Ferrante. A rich, intense and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who are in the throes of adolescence—aimless, distracted and aimless again. When Elena discovers the secret of Lila’s perfect assonance with her name “Belle” and their shared love of books and reading, she is drawn into an old-fashioned friendship between them. And Lila takes on a fateful role in this friendship that will change her life forever.
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A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.
Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists.
