My Brilliant Friend

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by Elena Ferrante · 2011

My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L'amica geniale) is a 2011 literary-fiction novel by the pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante. It follows the intense, complex friendship between Elena Greco and Raffaella “Lila” Cerullo as they grow up in a poor neighborhood of postwar Naples, and is the first volume of the Neapolitan Novels.