Organized Crime Lurks Everywhere in My Brilliant Friend, the Real Story of the Rise of Naples' Underworld

Nov 19, 2018, 01:23 PM

Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, which have sold 2 million copies worldwide and will debut as an HBO series on Sunday, have won praise as a sensitive portrait of female friendship, but they're also a modern historical epic, beginning in the 1950s and spanning 60 years.