by Elena Ferrante · Folio Français · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782072819421
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«L'amie prodigieuse» is the first novel in Elena Ferrante's «L'amica geniale» saga, published by Folio in paperback (448 pages, in French).
Set in a poor neighbourhood of Naples in the late 1950s, it follows the relationship between Elena and Lila, two brilliant friends on different paths: Lila leaves school to work in her father's shoe shop; Elena continues studying thanks to her teacher. Their lives cross and separate in a restless city.
First volume of the «L'amica geniale» saga; the subtitle «Enfance, adolescence» corresponds to this French edition. Translation by Elsa Damien.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in intimate sagas about friendship, identity and mid-20th-century Italy.
