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.
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