L’amica geniale, Elena Ferrante

Genre:Novel.

Plot: This is the first of a series of four novels called ‘Las novelas napolitanas’. This first novel is about the childhood of two inseparable friends, Lila and Elena (the protagonists of the Neapolitan series), who grow in a deprived and violent neighborhood in Naples in which the possibilities of achieving higher education are very slim. Lila is irreverent and a rebel, while Elena is timid and compliant. Both girls try to find a way out of their neighborhood in order to find better work and education opportunities. However, the plans don’t work out for Lila as, unlike Elena, she doesn’t make it out of Naples. The story brilliantly explains the feelings and attitudes of addiction, manipulation, resentment and love from a psychological point of view.