L'amica geniale Series by Elena Ferrante

4.28 · 174 ratings
  • My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1)
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    My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1)

    Elena Ferrante

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings · published 2011

    My Brilliant Friend is a ravishing, wonderfully written novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime.The story of Elena and Lila begins in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. The two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, sometimes to their own detriment, as each discovers more about who she is and suffers or delights in the throes of their intense friendship... more

  • The Story of a New Name: Book Two of The The Neapolitan Novels (L'amica geniale #2)
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    The Story of a New Name: Book Two of The The Neapolitan Novels (L'amica geniale #2)

    Elena Ferrante

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings · published 2012

    Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other... more

  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (L'amica geniale #3)
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    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (L'amica geniale #3)

    Elena Ferrante

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings · published 2013

    In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her abusive husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which have opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons... more

  • The Story of the Lost Child (L'amica geniale #4)
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    The Story of the Lost Child (L'amica geniale #4)

    Elena Ferrante

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings · published 2014

    "Nothing quite like this has ever been published before," proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women with unmatched honesty and brilliance.The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women — the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila... more

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