TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferrante,Elena
AU  - Goldstein,Ann
TI  - My brilliant friend: book one : childhood, adolescence 
SN  - 9781609450786
AV  - PQ4866.E6345 M93 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Europa Editions
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Naples (Italy)
N1  - Prologue : eliminating all the traces -- Childhood : the story of Don Achille -- Adolescence : the story of the shoes
N2  - The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists, the unforgettable Elena and Lila
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