{"id":20257,"date":"2016-08-19T09:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20257"},"modified":"2016-09-12T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T19:31:55","slug":"a-review-of-the-italian-novel-my-brilliant-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20257","title":{"rendered":"A review of the Italian novel &#8220;My Brilliant Friend&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My summer reading project is to complete as much as possible of the four works that make up the &#8216;Neapolitan Novels&#8217;, an acclaimed series by the Italian author Elena Ferrante.<\/p>\n<p>This is a saga of the 60-year friendship between two girls from a poor neighbourhood of Naples after the Second World War:\u00a0the narrator Elena Greco, known as Lenu, whose father is a porter and Raffaella Cerullo, known as Lila, whose father is a shoemaker.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just finished the first novel in the series called <em>&#8220;My Brilliant Friend&#8221;<\/em> and you can read my review\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Ferrante1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My summer reading project is to complete as much as possible of the four works that make up the &#8216;Neapolitan Novels&#8217;, an acclaimed series by the Italian author Elena Ferrante. This is a saga of the 60-year friendship between two girls from a poor neighbourhood of Naples after the Second World War:\u00a0the narrator Elena Greco, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20373,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257\/revisions\/20373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}