Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend

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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
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380 printed pages
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Translator
Ann Goldstein
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Quotes

  • Dany Téllezhas quoted2 years ago
    I knew—perhaps I hoped—that no form could ever contain Lila, and that sooner or later she would break everything again.
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted2 years ago
    “I’ll kill you both.”

    “With me you can try right now.”

    Marcello left the lamppost in a rush, but, with a kind of death rattle, he bit his clenched right fist until it bled.

    “I love you too much, I can’t do it.”

    “Then get your brother, your father to do it, some friend, maybe they’re capable. But make it clear to all of them that you had better kill me first. Because if you touch anyone else while I’m alive, I will kill you, and you know I will, starting with you.”
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted2 years ago
    I kept on day after day, committed to asserting, with increasing thoroughness, to the teachers, to my classmates, to myself my application and diligence. But inside I felt a growing sense of solitude, I felt I was learning without energy.
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