My Brilliant Friend: The Four Volumes

“An unconditional masterpiece.” * Jhumpa Lahiri *“Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.” * The Sunday Times *

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the four novels known as the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child). My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018. Ferrante is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey, a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a collection of personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental Inventions. The Lost Daughter was made into a feature film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman. Her most recent novel is The Lying Life of Adults. In the Margins, a collection of original essays on reading and writing, was published in 2022.

Ann Goldstein has translated into English all of Elena Ferrante’s books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Lying Life of Adults and The Story of the Lost Child, which was also shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. She lives in New York.