This is the second book in the My Brilliant Friend series, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena set in the girls twenties.
Ferrante is a very powerful writer. yet she does it in such a simple way - the book moves slowly but at the end of it you think WOW.
I love the way it reads like the private inner thoughts of Elena with the mechanics of friendship and growing up with the added pressures of deeply ingrained habits and customs of a different culture and generation.
I love the characters because they seem very real with ambition, but yet are flawed.
The book contains incidents of domestic abuse and rape acceptable in a culture for men to beat women and makes pertinent social and political observations of that time.
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