![]() ![]() “It was very funny – she recognised every one of them,” says Saverio Costanzo, director of the series. Or, at least, the actors playing these roles in the forthcoming television adaptation of the first novel. ![]() One evening, the tourist stopped at a local restaurant for dinner, and, to her surprise, found Elena Greco eating there, along with railroad worker and poet Donato Sarratore and his family. Perhaps she was thinking of the scenes in the first novel, where Elena leaves home for a few blissful weeks of reading and swimming perhaps of the more dramatic romantic entanglements that happen on the island in the second volume. ![]() She was retracing the steps of Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo, the characters at the centre of the four-book series by Elena Ferrante that begins with My Brilliant Friend. E arlier this year, a Brazilian tourist was wandering around Ischia, a picturesque volcanic island just off the coast of Naples in southern Italy. ![]()
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