Lila climbed up to Signora Spagnuolo’s ground-floor window, and, hanging from the iron bar that the clothesline was attached to, swung back and forth, then lowered herself down to the sidewalk, and I immediately did the same, although I was afraid of falling and hurting myself. Lila would thrust her hand and then her whole arm into the black mouth of a manhole, and I, in turn, immediately did the same, my heart pounding, hoping that the cockroaches wouldn’t run over my skin, that the rats wouldn’t bite me. For some time, in school and outside of it, that was what we had been doing. My Brilliant Friend PDF Book Download The mothers were making dinner, it was time to go home, but we delayed, challenging each other, without ever saying a word, testing our courage. I remember the violet light of the courtyard, the smells of a warm spring evening. My friendship with Lila began the day we decided to go up the dark stairs that led, step after step, flight after flight, to the door of Don Achille’s apartment.

Is it possible that in all those years she left me nothing of herself, or, worse, that I didn’t want to keep anything of her? It is.

I discovered that I have nothing of hers, not a picture, not a note, not a little gift. And she never thought of suicide, repulsed by the idea that Rino would have anything to do with her body, and be forced to attend to the details. She never had in mind any sort of flight, a change of identity, the dream of making a new life somewhere else. It’s been at least three decades since she told me that she wanted to disappear without leaving a trace, and I’m the only one who knows what she means. If I were to call her Lina or Raffaella, suddenly, like that, she would think our friendship was over. To me, for more than sixty years, she’s been Lila. Not me, I’ve never used either her first name or her last. Rino’s mother is named Raffaella Cerullo, but everyone has always called her Lina. He had no brain, and in his heart he had only himself. My Brilliant Friend PDF Book by Elena Ferrante Name of BookĪbout Book – My Brilliant Friend PDF Book Download by Elena Ferrante I could imagine how carefully he had done his searching. What a good son: a large man, forty years old, who hadn’t worked in his life, just a small-time crook and spendthrift.

He had asked everyone, made the rounds of the hospitals: he had even gone to the police.

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