Una joya de la literatura contemporanea que ya ha fascinado a mas de medio millon de lectores en Italia y Estados Unidos.
Primer libro de la saga 'Dos Amigas", que inspiro la serie de HBO.
UNA SAGA MEMORABLE
Con La amiga estupenda, Elena Ferrante inaugura una tetralogia deslumbrante que tiene como telon de fondo la ciudad de Napoles a mediados del siglo pasado y como protagonistas a Lenu y Lila, dos jovenes mujeres que estan aprendiendo a gobernar su vida en un entorno donde la astucia, antes que la inteligencia, es el ingrediente de todas las salsas.
La relacion a menudo tempestuosa entre Lila y Lenu viene acompanada de un coro de voces que dan cuerpo a su historia y nos muestran la realidad de un barrio pobre, habitado por gente humilde que acata sin rechistar la ley del mas fuerte, pero La amiga estupenda esta lejos del realismo social: lo que aqui tenemos son unos personajes de carne y hueso, que nos intrigan y nos deslumbran por la fuerza y la urgencia de sus emociones.
Por primera vez Ferrante aborda una narracion muy amplia, poniendo en escena un verdadero tableau vivant donde no hay espacio para el topico: todo es vida y todo respira al hilo de la mejor literatura.
"El reto para quien escribe es llenar la distancia entre lo que vives y lo que cuentas, sentir fisicamente el impacto de la narracion...".-Elena Ferrante
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
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)
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, 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 conflictual friendship. Book one in the series follows Lila and Elena from their first 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 her protagonists.
"An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends," writes Entertainment Weekly. "Spectacular," says Maureen Corrigan on NPR's Fresh Air. "A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman," writes James Wood in The New Yorker
Ferrante is one of the world's great storytellers. With My Brilliant Friend she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.
Primer libro de la saga 'Dos Amigas", que inspiro la serie de HBO.
UNA SAGA MEMORABLE
Con La amiga estupenda, Elena Ferrante inaugura una tetralogia deslumbrante que tiene como telon de fondo la ciudad de Napoles a mediados del siglo pasado y como protagonistas a Lenu y Lila, dos jovenes mujeres que estan aprendiendo a gobernar su vida en un entorno donde la astucia, antes que la inteligencia, es el ingrediente de todas las salsas.
La relacion a menudo tempestuosa entre Lila y Lenu viene acompanada de un coro de voces que dan cuerpo a su historia y nos muestran la realidad de un barrio pobre, habitado por gente humilde que acata sin rechistar la ley del mas fuerte, pero La amiga estupenda esta lejos del realismo social: lo que aqui tenemos son unos personajes de carne y hueso, que nos intrigan y nos deslumbran por la fuerza y la urgencia de sus emociones.
Por primera vez Ferrante aborda una narracion muy amplia, poniendo en escena un verdadero tableau vivant donde no hay espacio para el topico: todo es vida y todo respira al hilo de la mejor literatura.
"El reto para quien escribe es llenar la distancia entre lo que vives y lo que cuentas, sentir fisicamente el impacto de la narracion...".-Elena Ferrante
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
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)
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, 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 conflictual friendship. Book one in the series follows Lila and Elena from their first 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 her protagonists.
"An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends," writes Entertainment Weekly. "Spectacular," says Maureen Corrigan on NPR's Fresh Air. "A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman," writes James Wood in The New Yorker
Ferrante is one of the world's great storytellers. With My Brilliant Friend she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.
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