My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante's New York Times bestselling masterpiece, My Brilliant Friend, book one of her Neapolitan Quartet, is now an extraordinary and vibrant graphic novel, with text adapted by Chiara Lagani, and illustrations by Mara Cerri. HBO's four-season TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has enjoyed tremendous success with critics and viewers in the U.S.; the books have also been adapted for the theater and radio plays. Here, for the first time, it is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel by one of Italy's most beloved illustrators. For Ferrante fans, for those new to Ferrante, for readers of graphic novels, Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend: the graphic novel is a thrilling new adaptation of one of the best loved novels of recent decades. Translated by Ferrante's long-time translator, Ann Goldstein, the graphic novel tells the enduring story of the complex friendship between Lila and Lenu in post-war Naples.