![]() ![]() "Lila was too much for anyone," says Lenú, whose full name, like the pen name of her creator, is Elena. The moment Lenú first commits to their friendship is also an act in imitation of Lila's cruelty. ![]() In this book, the girls identities are unstable, and they repeatedly swap roles: when Lenú is beautiful, Lila is not, and when Lenú temporarily abandons school, it seems Lila could become the scholar. Her powerful, nuanced, urgent take on this old story of female friendship shot through with rivalry begins with the first book in the series, My Brilliant Friend (published in English in 2012). ![]() She was born in Naples, perhaps around the same time as the two heroines of her Neapolitan books, growing up in the aftermath of the second world war. ![]()
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