My Brilliant Friend

"My Brilliant Friend" is the first of four books in the famous "Neapolitan quartet" by Elena Ferrante. It is a story about ordinary people you might see in the neighboring yard. They make ordinary and inexplicable choices, speak foolishly, argue... and make up, foolishly get married, toil over textbooks at night... And within this ordinariness lies some magic. On the pages of the novel, bathed in hot sun, everyone will find a piece of their childhood, and in the characters unexpectedly recognize themselves...

"Elena Ferrante, with the magic of her writing, as if with a wave of a magic wand, transports us readers back to Italy of her childhood - wild, unbridled, dangerous, with its street fights, blood feuds, gunfire, the rights of the rich and powerful, - nevertheless so soulful and warm, so familiar and close. Streets and whole neighborhoods are built over, houses are demolished, trees and people perish, but that unforgettable country - the country of childhood and the uplifting world of youth - remains with us forever". From readers' reviews
Comments and dictionary by L.N. Latypova.