📚Book Discussion: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Neapolitan Quartet) 🎙

📚 About the series

Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, also known as the Neapolitan Quartet, is a single 1,700 page novel in four volumes about the lives of and relationship between two girls becoming women in Naples: Lina and Elena. The four volumes (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published by Europa Editions in English between 2012 and 2015. The New York Times has named My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante the best book of the 21st century, cementing the series' status as a modern literary masterpiece that chronicles a complex female friendship against the backdrop of post-war Naples.

📖 My Brilliant Friend

Set primarily in a working-class neighborhood of Naples during the 1950s, My Brilliant Friend chronicles the complex friendship between Elena Greco (called Lenù) and Raffaella Cerullo (known as Lila). This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence. Looking back on her childhood in 1950s Naples, Elena recalls life in a neighborhood run by loan sharks and gangsters and dominated by widespread violence, establishing the harsh social backdrop against which their brilliant but complicated friendship unfolds.

As part of the group, we will read 4 books with adequate spacing between each one. This is the first meetup for the series. I'm looking forward to the discussions 😊

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I hope to see you all soon! 😊