the neapolitan novels by elena ferrante

i'm not trying to be dramatic but these books made me feel grateful to know how to read. the greatest novels of our generation, in my personal opinion: a complete, robust, vivid epic; a deeply felt, nuanced, and real portrait of two women and the complexities of female friendship, with a huge cast of characters that are all three-dimensional and distinct. such a feat to make all of this legible in translation, also