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My Brilliant Friend is a ravishing, wonderfully written novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. The two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, sometimes to their own detriment, as each discovers more about who she is and suffers or delights in the throes of their intense friendship. There is a piercing honesty about Ferrante's prose that makes My Brilliant Friend a compulsively readable portrait of two young women, and also the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country. Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. Fragments , a selection of interviews, letters and occasional writings by Ferrante, will be published in early One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory

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Omnivoracious: The Amazon Review: "The Story of the Lost Child is on many best books of fall lists, and has received glowing reviews everywhere already. Pleasure in watching a beloved author have her moment, break out, find her time and audience. Pride in having even the smallest bit to do with it. Within 24 hours, the fourth in the Neapolitan Novels by the pseudonymous Italian author has flown into the top of Amazon's bestseller list. The Story of the Lost Child is on many best books of fall lists, and has received glowing reviews everywhere already. For example: I gave the first three books to my sister-in-law, an attorney and one of the best readers I know — and by that I mean she can be hard to please, literarily and I mean that in the best way.