Before Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend appeared in English, no one thought it would be a smash hit. The novel and its three sequels, collectively known as the Neapolitan Quartet , follow two women, Lila and Elena, through a tempestuous, competitive, and emotionally intense friendship that doubles as a history of postwar feminism and postwar Italy. Although the books, like Ferrante’s earlier work, were critically acclaimed in the original Italian, editors elsewhere were skeptical that their

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