A modern masterpiece from one of Italy\'s most acclaimed authors, this rich, intense, and generous-hearted story gives a meticulous portrait of two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. -- The New Yorker. --Maureen Corrigan, NPR\'s Fresh Air Captivating. -- Entertainment Weekly Spectacular.
An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends.
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 two women.
This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence.
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante\'s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship.
Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times -bestselling enduring masterpiece about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples ( The Atlantic ).
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy\'s most acclaimed authors, this rich, intense, and generous-hearted story gives a meticulous portrait of two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship
