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Elena Ferrante also filled many Christmas stockings with her four-part Neapolitan Novels series. The first novel in the collection, My Brilliant Friend, creates a realistic and unsentimental portrait of female experience, rivalry and friendship.
It’s become a global phenomenon and “people are loving [the series] as they’re getting a lovely long look at Italian life, post World War II,” says Gleebooks’ David Gaunt.