#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES
“A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman.”—James Wood, The New Yorker
“One of modern fiction’s richest portraits of a friendship.”—John Powers, Fresh Air, NPR
“Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time.”—Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review
“Compelling, visceral and immediate . . . The Neapolitan novels are a tour de force.”—Jennifer Gilmore, The Los Angeles Times
“Elena Ferrante will blow you away.”—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
“Amazing! My Brilliant Friend took my breath away. If I were president of the world I would make everyone read this book. It is so honest and right and opens up heart to so much. Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can’t look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn’t know books could do this!”—Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge
“The Neapolitan novel cycle is an unconditional masterpiece . . . I read all the books in a state of immersion; I was totally enthralled. There was nothing else I wanted to do except follow the lives of Lila and Lenù to the end.”
—Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Lowland
“Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it.”
—The Boston Globe
“Ferrante’s own writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backwards to its most radical birthing.”—The New Yorker