Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend book of 21st century - NYT

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 13 - Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend is the best book of the 21st century, according to a ranking compiled by The New York Times Book Review.
    The moving story a long friendship between two girls in a poor neighborhood in Naples came top on the basis of a survey of 503 literary luminaries - novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers They included Stephen King, Bonnie Garmus, Claudia Rankine, James Patterson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elin Hilderbrand, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Roxane Gay, Marlon James, Sarah MacLean, Min Jin Lee, Jonathan Lethem and Jenna Bush Hage. (ANSA).