My Amazing Girlfriend - Elena Ferrante

In this quartet, Ferrante monitors the lives of two smart girls - Elena Greco, the kind, conscious girl, who loves books, and her friend, the capricious and reckless Laila - from their childhood to adulthood, as they try to find two lives for themselves in the midst of the violent and disgraceful culture that prevails in the neighborhood in which they live. outskirts of Naples in Italy.

The intertwined lives of the two girls provide an indelible portrait of Naples, an intrinsic understanding of women's daily lives and their relentless quest to circumvent men's pretensions, domestic work, and artistic aspirations.

The book depicts, and through an accurate investigation of the friendship that binds them in all its details, how they struggled to escape from the neighborhood in which they grew up, which was a prison of blind obedience, violence, and taboos that could not be violated at all.

Number of pages: 438