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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