Book #96 of 2016: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (The Neapolitan Novels #1) The bildungsroman is a genre that generally doesn’t interest me, but My Brilliant Friend is a very well-executed instance of it. Elena Ferrante’s tale of two girls growing up in 1950s Naples is undeniably charming, even in translation and viewed from …
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