Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of the award-winning Italian author of the critically acclaimed “Neapolitan quartet” published in the English translation between 2012 and 2015. She has successfully kept her identity a secret since the beginning of her career in 1992, which marked the publication of her first novel, Troubling Love (L’amore Molesto), published in the English translation in 2006. Many of her books have Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of the award-winning Italian author of the critically acclaimed “Neapolitan quartet” published in the English translation between 2012 and 2015.
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Elena And Lila
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My Brilliant Friend
‘Rino’s mother is named Raffaella Cerullo, but everyone has always called her Lina. Not me … To me, for more than sixty years, she’s been Lila.’ Set in the 1950s, My Brilliant Friend is the first volume of the “Neapolitan quartet”, the story of a friendship blossomed in a violent and deprived neighbourhood of Naples. So different yet connected by an unbreakable bond, Elena and Lila are inseparable, but their paths converge and diverge, progressively increasing the distance between them.
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