The first in the famous Neapolitan quartet of novels, in My Brilliant Friend we meet Elena and Lila for the first time as they navigate the beginning of their lifelong friendship, the poverty of 1950s Naples, and the inexplicable behaviour of adults. A literary...
Together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, Gerda Taro was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. Taro was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically...