My Brilliant Friend

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eBook, 336 pages

English language

Published Dec. 10, 2012 by Europa Editions.

ISBN:
978-1-60945-863-8
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OCLC Number:
859323121

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence.

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 two women.

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reviewed La amiga estupenda by Elena Ferrante

Crudeza y ternura

5 stars

La feminidad -en el patriarcado- es una cárcel. La precariedad, otra. Y 'La amiga estupenda' es, en esencia, una novela sobre la vida cuando su transcurrir choca constantemente contra los barrotes de esas -y otras- cárceles.

Elena Ferrante consigue presentar las heridas y los malestares que configuran la existencia de tantísimas personas desde una escritura sencilla que aúna de alguna manera la ternura y la crudeza. Quizá porque la realidad, por más que estemos rodeadas por el mal más abyecto, es en sí misma preciosa. Que la protagonista principal sea una niña potencia enormemente esta capacidad de verlo todo con extrañeza e inocencia.