Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, translated by Ann Goldstein, was named the Best Book of the 21st Century by The New York Times Book Review, which selected it after surveying hundreds of “literary luminaries” about their top 10 books since 2000.
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Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
2012, pp. 336, $ 18.00A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about... -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name
2013, pp. 480, $ 18.00The Story of a New Name is a sweeping, generous-hearted, and brilliantly realized masterpiece by one of Italy's most important contemporary... -
Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
2014, pp. 400, $ 18.00In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child
2015, pp. 480, $ 18.00This fourth and final of Elena Ferrante's renowned Neapolitan Novels follows the concluding chapter in the moving and turbulent friendship of Elena...
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The Best Book of the Century
The New York Times has named My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein, the best book of the 21st century.
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“At the heart of this novel is the dichotomy between idealized eternal love, as in the Greek myth, and the real, embodied, mortal kind. Through it all, Starnone’s prose is charming, witty, and intellectual.”
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“The Bishop’s Villa illuminates a dark slice of Italian history. Naspini exposes the brutality of the prison camp and highlights the immense courage of the Resistance fighters. Fans of The Book Thief and All the Light We Cannot See will be moved by the bravery and humanity shared among prisoners, civilians, and sympathizers.”
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“The structure of this novel is intricate and masterful, and like the finest made structures, it is shaped by the storytelling and not the other way around.”
— Electric Lit, Aug 14 2024![]()
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“Captivating... Smartly voiced, briskly paced... The Throne paints a Machiavelli credibly embedded in his vibrant, vicious times—but capable as well of the flinty thoughts and words that would outlive them.”— Wall Street Journal, Aug 10 2024![]()
“Bowring focuses on inner lives. Her subtle, empathetic rendering of everyday joys and sorrows in the eddy of Bridget's death rings true.”
— Booklist, Aug 8 2024
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