My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (English)

Description: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, this rich, intense, and generous-hearted story gives a meticulous portrait of two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times ?bestselling ?enduring masterpiece? about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples ( The Atlantic ). 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. ?An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends.? ? Entertainment Weekly ?Spectacular.? ?Maureen Corrigan, NPR?s Fresh Air ?Captivating.? ? The New Yorker Notes A richly plotted novel about friendship from the Italian author, translated by Ann Goldstein. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples and follows 2 friends through the years. Author Biography Elena Ferrante is one of Italys most important and acclaimed contemporary writers, author of The Days of Abandonment and Troubling Love. Her true identity is unknown. Long Description OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN ENGLISH WORLDWIDE OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UK 14 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES GUARDIAN 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY 58 WEEKS ON THE BOOKSELLERS TOP 20 ORIGINAL FICTION BESTSELLERS LIST SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015 43 INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS DEALS Now in B-format Paperback From one of Italys most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood 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 their friendship, beautifully and meticulously rendered, becomes a not always perfect shelter from hardship. Ferrante has created a memorable portrait of two women, but My Brilliant Friend is also the story of a nation. Through the lives of Elena and Lila, Ferrante gives her readers the story of a city and a country undergoing momentous change. "Nothing quite like it has ever been published." - Guardian "Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world." - The Sunday Times "This is high stakes, subversive literature." - The Telegraph Review Quote Praise for Elena Ferrante and The Neapolitan Novels The United States "Ferrantes novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader." -- James Wood , The New Yorker "One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory." -- Megan OGrady , Vogue "Amazing! My Brilliant Friend took my breath away. If I were president of the world I would make everyone read this book. It is so honest and right and opens up heart to so much. Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you cant look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didnt know books could do this!" -- Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge "I like the Italian writer, Elena Ferrante, a lot. Ive been reading all her work and all about her." -- John Waters , actor and director "Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist youve never heard of." -- The Economist "Ferrantes freshness has nothing to do with fashion...it is imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history." -- The New York Times Book Review "I am such a fan of Ferrantes work, and have been for quite a while." -- Jennifer Gilmore , author of The Mothers "The womens fraught relationship and shifting fortunes are the life forces of the poignant book" -- Publishers Weekly "When I read [the Neapolitan novels] I find that I never want to stop. I feel vexed by the obstacles--my job, or acquaintances on the subway--that threaten to keep me apart from the books. I mourn separations (a year until the next one--how?). I am propelled by a ravenous will to keep going." -- Molly Fischer , The New Yorker "[Ferrantes Neapolitan Novels] dont merely offer a teeming vision of working-class Naples, with its cobblers and professors, communists and mobbed-up businessmen, womanizing poets and downtrodden wives; they present one of modern fictions richest portraits of a friendship." -- John Powers , Fresh Air, NPR "Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk . . . In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. This is a new version of the way we live now -- one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman." -- Roxana Robinson , The New York Times Book Review "An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends Lila and Elena, Bright and passionate girls from a raucous neighborhood in world-class Naples. Ferrante writes with such aggression and unnerving psychological insight about the messy complexity of female friendship that the real world can drop away when youre reading her." -- Entertainment Weekly "Its just hypnotic. I could not stop reading it or thinking about it." -- Hillary Clinton "Ferrante seasons the prose with provocative perceptions not unlike the way Proust did." -- Shelf Awareness "It would be difficult to find a deeper portrait of womens friendship than the one in Ferrantes Neapolitan novels, which unfold from the fifties to the twenty-first century to tell a single story with the possessive force of an origin myth." -- Megan OGrady , Vogue "Ferrantes writing is so unencumbered, so natural, and yet so lovely, brazen, and flush. The constancy of detail and the pacing that zips and skips then slows to a real-time crawl have an almost psychic effect, bringing you deeply into synchronicity with the discomforts and urgency of the characters emotions. Ferrante is unlike other writers--not because shes innovative, but rather because shes unselfconscious and brutally, diligently honest." -- Minna Proctor , Bookforum "Ferrante can do a womans interior dialogue like no one else, with a ferocity that is shockingly honest, unnervingly blunt." -- Booklist "The truest evocation of a complex and lifelong friendship between women Ive ever read." -- Emily Gould , author of Friendship "Elena Ferrante is the author of several remarkable, lucid, austerely honest novels . . . My Brilliant Friend is a large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman." -- James Wood , The New Yorker "Compelling, visceral and immediate . . . a riveting examination of power . . . The Neapolitan novels are a tour de force." -- Jennifer Gilmore , The Los Angeles Times "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay surpasses the rapturous storytelling of the previous titles in the Neapolitan Novels." -- Publishers Weekly ( starred review ) "Ferrantes voice feels necessary. She is the Italian Alice Munro." -- Mona Simpson , author of Casebook and Anywhere But Here "Elena Ferrante will blow you away." -- Alice Sebold , author of The Lovely Bones "The Days of Abandonment is a powerful, heartrending novel." -- Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Lowland "The Neapolitan novel cycle is an unconditional masterpiece . . . I read all the books in a state of immersion; I was totally enthralled. There was nothing else I wanted to do except follow the lives of Lila and Len Details ISBN1609450787 Author Elena Ferrante Year 2012 ISBN-10 1609450787 ISBN-13 9781609450786 Media Book Publisher Europa Editions Language English Translator Ann Goldstein DEWEY FIC Short Title MY BRILLIANT FRIEND BK01 Pages 331 Publication Date 2012-09-25 Series Neapolitan Novels Series Number 1 Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2012-10-11 Imprint Europa Editions Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-10-11 NZ Release Date 2012-10-11 US Release Date 2012-10-11 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:45075995;

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