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My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

Premiering November 2018 as an HBO series. Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most

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Elena Ferrante (3)

“On December 31st of 1958 Lila had her first episode of dissolving margins. The term isn’t mine, she always used it. She said that on those occasions the outlines of people and things suddenly dissolved, disappeared. That night, on the terrace where we were celebrating the arrival of 1959, when she w…”

— Elena Ferrante, amazon.com

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“Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. She knew how to go beyond the limit without ever truly suffering the consequences. In the end people gave in, and were even, however unwillingly, compelled to praise her.”

— Elena Ferrante, amazon.com

Tagged: strength, fragility, Limitations, Womanhood

“The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.”

— Elena Ferrante, amazon.com

Tagged: purpose, Chance, Expectations, Uncertainty