My Brilliant Friend (hbo Tie-in Edition) by Elena Ferrante, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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 beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples ( The Atlantic ).Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between two women."An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends." - Entertainment Weekly "Spectacular." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"Captivating." - The New Yorker " | My Brilliant Friend (hbo Tie-in Edition) by Elena Ferrante, Paperback | Indigo Chapters