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by Elena Ferrante · Dos amigas series
In 1950s Naples, two young girls from different backgrounds forge an intense, competitive friendship that will shape their lives for decades. Ferrante captures the texture of poverty, ambition, and female friendship with unflinching honesty as Elena and Lila navigate education, love, and the violent constraints of their neighborhood. The first volume of a revolutionary quartet that redefines what fiction about women's lives can be.
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