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    My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of My Brilliant Friend with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, which follows two bright young girls, Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo, as they navigate their childhood and teenage years in post-war Italy. In spite of Lila’s brilliance, her gender and her family’s poverty mean that, unlike Elena, she is denied the opportunity of an education and must marry at a young age. The novel is a stunning portrait of Italian society and female friendship, with all its tensions and complexities. It is the first of Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan novels, which trace Elena and Lila’s lives until Lila’s unexplained disappearance when the two women are in their sixties. 

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateMay 20, 2019
    ISBN9782808019286
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