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HBO joins Rai to coproduce the tv series based on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet
HBO and Italian state broadcaster Rai have teamed up on “My Brilliant Friend,” the hotly anticipated drama series based on the first of four “Neapolitan Novels” written by Italian author Elena Ferrante, whose books have legions of fervent fans around the world.
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The Neapolitan Novels
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Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
2012, pp. 336, £ 11.99A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about... -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name
2013, pp. 480, £ 11.99The Story of a New Name is a sweeping, generous-hearted, and brilliantly realized masterpiece by one of Italy's most important contemporary... -
Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
2014, pp. 400, £ 11.99In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child
2015, pp. 464, £ 11.99This fourth and final of Elena Ferrante's renowned Neapolitan Novels follows the concluding chapter in the moving and turbulent friendship of Elena...
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Francesca Melandri at European Literature Night
10 May 2017, Bristish Library. Contemplating European authorship in a post-Brexit context. -
Saleem Haddad at Burley Fisher Books
Join us for an evening with Saleem Haddad, who will be reading from his novel Guapa. -
HBO joins Rai to coproduce the tv series based on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet
Shooting is starting this summer in Naples for a premiere targeted in 2018.
Recent reviews
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This vigorously entertaining book is centered around a young girl who is struggling with her beloved brother’s accidental death, her mother’s depression, and fitting in at school. Humorous, touching and profound, The Breaking of a Wave is an imaginative and heartwarming celebration...— Bookriot, May 24 2017![]()
I devoured this novel in two sittings and can confidently say that it will remain one of my favourite books in years to come. This novel got media buzz because a) it is written (allegedly!) by Ferrante’s husband and b) it is translated by renowned writer, Jhumpa Lahiri. However,...— Bookriot, May 24 2017![]()
What drew me to this book was the fact that it beat Elena Ferrante’s Story of the Lost Child to win the Strega Prize (Italy’s Booker equivalent) in 2015. It is billed as “a combination of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, filtered through the...— Bookriot, May 24 2017![]()
The Gringo Champion is a “wetback” who earns his title by beating all odds. After crossing the Rio Grande into an American border town, Liborio is rescued by migrants, naked and blistered. He lives and works with them until they’re nearly caught by immigration officials.— Independent Publisher, May 23 2017![]()
We have encountered Inspector Gilles Sebag before on Crime Fiction Lover. He lives in Perpignan, on the south-western tip of France, right next to the Catalan border. It is a magical place in summer, full of hazy sunshine, contented tourists, delicious food and people enjoying...— Crime Fiction Lover, May 21 2017![]()
In writing The Gringo Champion, Xilonen essentially created a new language (‘ingeñol’ as some reviewers have named it) that represents the imbricated border culture, and when faced with the task of translating, requested that her translators do the same.— The Rumpus, May 19 2017![]()
Pasolini does in prose what Giuseppe Gioachino Belli had done in poetry a century before, namely voice society’s dregs in their own distinctive idiom.— The Times Literary Suplement, May 18 2017![]()
This novel is never less than an intriguing read— European Literature Network, May 16 2017
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Maurizio de Giovanni
Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
2016, pp. 320, £ 10.99A child is kidnapped. A high-class apartment is burgled. The two crimes seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as “the... -
Massimo Carlotto
For All the Gold in the World
2016, pp. 192, £ 9.99A brand new Carlotto, darker than ever... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
The Bastards of Pizzofalcone
2016, pp. 228, £ 10.99A new series of hardboiled crime fiction set in contemporary Naples by the author of the internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series. -
Joe Flanagan
Lesser Evils
2016, pp. 416, £ 11.99An exciting entry into the noir canon, Joe Flanagan’s Lesser Evils expertly reimagines 1957 Cape Cod, where the mystifying murder of a local... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
The Bottom of Your Heart. Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi
2015, pp. 464, £ 11.99In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from his office...