It is a raw and sometimes brutal account of the lives of families surviving in a neighbourhood run by a mobster family – the Solara’s. My Brilliant Friend – Elena FerranteĪt the heart of this story is the intense and often difficult friendship between Elena and Lila, two very bright girls born into a poor neighbourhood of Naples in the 1950s. It is the story of a friendship, the complexity of families, the city of Naples and of Italy.
This book, My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, took me straight to Naples, the island of Ischia and Florence. See our full disclosure hereĭo you read to take yourself to another place, another time?Įvery now and again I come across a novel so powerful that I feel drawn to the people and places it describes.
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