by Elena Ferrante · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426420787
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«La amiga estupenda» is the first novel in Elena Ferrante's «Dos amigas» saga, published by Lumen in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
In mid-20th-century Naples, Lenù and Lila grow up in a poor neighborhood where cunning counts for more than intelligence. Their intense, contradictory friendship accompanies them as the neighborhood and the city are transformed. Ferrante portrays a community ruled by the law of the strongest and the urgency of emotions that shake her characters.
First volume of the «Dos amigas» saga, translated by Celia Filipetto; this Spanish edition was published in 2012.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs who want a story of female friendship; recommended age 16 and up.
Elena Ferrante es el seudónimo de una escritora italiana, autora de la tetralogía de la amiga estupenda. Su narrativa sobre la amistad femenina y la Nápoles del siglo XX la sitúa entre las voces más importantes de la literatura europea contemporánea.
