My Brilliant Friend

author

Elena Ferrante

1943 -

first publication date: 2011

genre: novel, Bildungsroman

part of the series: Neapolitan Novels, My Brilliant Friend

original title: L'amica geniale

original language: Italian

main subject: friendship, class struggle

narrative location: Naples

followed by: The Story of a New Name

My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L'amica geniale) is the first volume of a four-part series of novels known collectively as the Neapolitan Novels, written by Italian author Elena Ferrante and translated to English by Ann Goldstein. Source: Wikipedia (en)