by Elena Ferrante · E/O · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788866320326
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«L'amica geniale» is the novel by Elena Ferrante that opens her Neapolitan saga, published by E/O in paperback (336 pages, in Italian).
Elena and Lila grow up in a poor neighbourhood of Naples in the 1950s. Through Elena's eyes, the novel follows their childhood and adolescence and an intense friendship marked by admiration, jealousy and competition, while their surroundings and school chart different paths for each. First instalment of Ferrante's Neapolitan saga.
First volume of the saga, subtitled «infanzia, adolescencia», which was adapted into the television series directed by Saverio Costanzo.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in female friendship, twentieth-century Naples and postwar Italy.
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works. Time magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most influential people in 2016.
