Publish Date: 2011
‘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.
