Jeffrey Archer: ‘Elena Ferrante does for Naples what Dickens did for London’
The author discusses Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity, his writing room in Majorca and resembling Toad in Toad of Toad Hall
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Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend. I couldn’t have imagined that a book about two girls growing up in Naples could appeal to me, but it’s magnificent. Ferrante does for Naples what Dickens did for London.
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