Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

My brilliant friend. book one : childhood, adolescence / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

by Ferrante, Elena.

View full image

Europa Editions, 2012.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Naples (Italy) -- Fiction.

Italy -- Fiction.

Ferrante, Elena. Neapolitan novels ; 1.

9781609450786 (trade pbk.)

Amica geniale. English

Alternate title:

L'amica geniale.

331 p. ; 21 cm.

Translation of: L'amica geniale.

Translated from the Italian.

Prologue : eliminating all the traces -- Childhood : the story of Don Achille -- Adolescence : the story of the shoes.

The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. 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 protagonists, the unforgettable Elena and Lila.

Italian fiction -- Translations into English.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal