Discussing Ferrante’s widely popular four-novel series. A literary success in Italy and worldwide, the series follows the life of two friends growing together and drifting apart across sixty years of Italian history.
You chose: my brilliant friends
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Elena Ferrante's novel, My Brilliant Friend,was presented at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York as part of the New York European Book Club, a collaborative project of 7 European cultural institutions to promote leadership of each country's literature in English translation. My Brilliant Friend is the story of two little girls who become friends in the first grade and grow up in the same neighborhood in Naples in the 1950s.