Critical Praise

“One of the great novelists of our time.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“MY BRILLIANT FRIEND is a large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman.”

—James Wood, The New Yorker

“Ferrante transforms the love, separation and reunion of two poor urban girls into the general tragedy of their city.”

—The New York Times

“Compelling, visceral and immediate…a riveting examination of power…. The Neapolitan Novels are a tour de force.”

—Jennifer Gilmore, The Los Angeles Times

“The Neapolitan novel cycle is an unconditional masterpiece…. I read all the books in a state of immersion; I was totally enthralled. There was nothing else I wanted to do except follow the lives of Lila and Lenù to the end.”

—Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of THE LOWLAND

“Stunning. An intense, forensic exploration of the friendship between Lila and the story’s narrator, Elena…. Cinematic in the density of its detail.”

—The Times Literary Supplement

“Ferrante is unlike other writers --- not because she’s innovative, but rather because she’s unselfconscious and brutally, diligently honest.”

—Minna Proctor, Bookforum

“The truest evocation of a complex and lifelong friendship between women I’ve ever read.”

—Emily Gould, author of FRIENDSHIP

“Elena Ferrante will blow you away.”

—Alice Sebold, author of THE LOVELY BONES