My Brilliant Friend

"My Brilliant Friend" is the first novel in the "Neapolitan Novels" series. It is a story about the childhood of two girls from a poor neighborhood in Naples and the beginning of a lifelong friendship. The girls' paths will first... diverge after elementary school. Family circumstances will force one of them to drop out of school and go to work in her father's shoemaking shop. Throughout their lives, an invisible rivalry, accompanying true intimacy, will drive them down different paths. Each of the friends will strive to be the best, each will experience both success and disappointment, and both will face great trials and tragic events. But the strong thread of childhood friendship, which sometimes binds people even against their will, will repeatedly bring Lila and Elena back to each other.