by Elena Ferrante · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426420787
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«La amiga estupenda» is the first novel in Elena Ferrante's «Dos amigas» saga, published by Lumen in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
In mid-20th-century Naples, Lenù and Lila grow up in a poor neighbourhood where cunning counts for more than intelligence. Their intense, contradictory friendship accompanies them as the neighbourhood and the city are transformed. Ferrante portrays a community ruled by the law of the strongest and the urgency of emotions that shake her characters.
First volume of the «Dos amigas» saga, translated by Celia Filipetto; this Spanish edition was published in 2012.
For readers of literary fiction and reading groups who want a story of female friendship; recommended age 16 and up.
Elena Ferrante is the pen name of an Italian author, creator of the Neapolitan Novels that began with My Brilliant Friend. Her writing on female friendship and 20th-century Naples has placed her among the most important voices in contemporary European literature.
