Together these novels form the Neapolitan Quartet, a modern epic of post-War Italy. The Quartet is about many things: the workers’ and women’s movements, organized crime, gender and sexuality, and ...

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The New York Times has published a list with the 100 best books of the century so far and this Italian novel occupies the first place.

With the 2011 release of My Brilliant Friend, the first of her Neapolitan Novels – a four-book series about two girls growing up amid the grim violence of Naples – Ferrante’s literary star ...

Here’s an overview of her work → My Brilliant Friend If you’re completely new to Ferrante, start here, with the first of her four Neapolitan novels. They trace a lifelong, complex friendship ...

The fourth and last TV adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Mt Brilliant Friend quartet of Neapolitan novels has made the New York ...

A riveting tale of female companionship, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet is a four-part series of novels that intricately weaves the lives of two childhood best friends, Elena Greco and Raffaella ...