Elena Ferrante

Once upon a time there were two girls, Lenù and Lila, who were born in 1944 in a poor neighborhood in the city of Naples. Lila married very young with the wealthiest man in the neighborhood and soon left him. Elena, on the other hand, has continued her studies and has even written a novel. Thus, at first sight, nothing unites the two friends anymore, but the neighborhood of Naples where they were girls still claims them, the old customs return them...

The lost girl puts an end to the story of two women who were born in the mid-twentieth century in Naples and since girls were sharing a peculiar friendship, with moments of doubt or absence, but always complicit. Lila and Lenù are now sweet and have taken different paths: Lenù left Naples to marry and become a successful writer in Milan. Only a love of youth that blooms again will return it to Naples, where Lila waits for her. Men, women, elpaisje,...

Todo cambia en la vida de Olga cuando, después de quince años de matrimonio, Mario la abandona por una jovencita. Sola con sus dus hijos, su mundo en apariencia perfecto se desmorona. Atrapada entre las cuatro paredes del piso que antes llamaba hogar, Olge no duerme, no como y casi no se reconoce: cuando se mira por la mañana, la imagen que le devuelve el espejo es la de una mujer que ha perdido todos sus atributos, y tendrá que buscar otras...

Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s, they are still...

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...

A tale of best friends Lila and Elena, which started at the school in the 1950s. As an elderly woman, Elena tries to unravel the mystery of her brilliant friend, who also became her worst enemy.

"HBO's four-season TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has enjoyed success with critics and viewers in the U.S.; the novel has been adapted for the stage and radio plays. Here, for the first time, it is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel by one of Italy's most beloved illustrators. For Ferrante fans, for those new to Ferrante, for readers of graphic novels, Chiara Lagani's and Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend: the graphic novel is a thrilling...