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The HBO TV series of the same name was launched on November 28. Shortly after its launch, it was selected as one of Time Magazine's top ten dramas of 2018. The current Douban score is 9.4. The first part of Elena Ferrante's "Naples Tetralogy" tells the story of the girlhood of the heroines Lila and Elena. Already successful, Elena received a call from Lila's son, saying that his mother had completely disappeared. Elena remembered Lila's prophecy about her destiny, so she wrote the story of their lives. Lila and Elena have been inseparable since childhood and trust each other, but they both regard each other as their own secret mirror and secretly compete with each other. Lila is smart and beautiful. Elena not only envies Lila's learning talent and superhuman decisiveness, but also secretly imitates Lila. Her family did not support Lila's continued studies. Elena continued her studies alone with love, jealousy and understanding for her friends, but she was still unable to face the loss of competing with Lila. Sixteen-year-old Lila decided to marry a butcher shop owner. At the wedding banquet, she discovered her husband's betrayal. Elena stands at the entrance to the adult world, worried about her future and also hesitant because of her vague attraction to the forward-thinking Nino.

"The Missing Child" is the fourth book in the "Neapolitan Quartet". The novel focuses on the prime and later years of Lila and Elena ("I"), bringing a heartbreaking end to their friendship that has lasted for more than fifty years. For the sake of love and writing, "I" left my husband and returned to Naples with my two daughters. I inevitably became close to Lila again and the city I had wanted to escape from. "I" and Lila even got pregnant and gave birth to a child in the same year, and experienced the horrific and brutal Naples earthquake. Everything fell apart and everything was about to be rebuilt.

"The Lie Life of Adults (2019)" is the latest work by Italian writer Elena Ferrante after the "Naples Quadrilogy". It focuses on the youth and growth of Giovanna, a girl from a middle-class family in Naples. Two years before her father left home, twelve-year-old Giovanna overheard her father telling her mother that she was ugly and more and more like her sister Victoria, whom he had always disliked. This sentence drove Giovanna to walk to downtown Naples for the first time and face the humble past that her father had left behind. Giovanna witnessed the absurd and tragic love between her aunt Victoria and Enzo in the past, and also formed strange friendships with Enzo's orphans Tonino, Curado and Juliana. That rough and reckless lower-class community gradually became a tool for Giovanna to rebel against the hypocritical life of the middle class in the upper city. She observed and imitated the lies of the adult world with a masochistic passion: her parents' hypocritical marriage, Victoria's vulgar emotional story, the truth about the bracelet her father and aunt were fighting for... One time when she went to church with her aunt, Giovanna met the pious and erudite Robert, and secretly intervened in the love affair between Juliana and Robert. After her ambiguous imagination about Robert was shattered, Giovanna ended her virginity in a neat and cruel way. On the train to Venice, sixteen-year-old Giovanna and her friends promised each other to enter adulthood in a unique way.

The second part of Elena Ferrante's "Neapolitan Quartet" describes the youth of Elena and Lila. Lila discovers on her wedding day that marriage is not what she imagined and her first night is almost a rape. She intervenes in Stefano's family business with a strong desire to destroy. Lila and Elena, who have not been pregnant for a long time, go to the beach to recuperate. And that summer in Ischia changed everyone's life. Out of anger at the love Lila had, "I" (Elena) became the first college student on the block, got engaged to a boy from a high-class intellectual family, and published her first novel. I returned to Naples, only to find that Lila, who had said goodbye to her ugly marriage, was working humiliatingly in a meat processing factory. When I discovered that my novel had completely stolen the unique power and inspiration from the secret notebook Lila had entrusted to me, I was forced to face a question: Who left and who stayed between Lila and me?

The third season of HBO's high-scoring drama "My Brilliant Girl" will premiere on February 6, 2022. This season is adapted from the third part of Elena Ferrante's "Naples Tetralogy" "What Leaves, What Stays". "I" published my first novel with the help of my fiancé Pietro and his family, and enjoyed the joy of success, while Lila, who stayed in Naples, was trapped in a poor and humble factory life. Like a knight, "I" intervened in Lila's life again, and used the connections between her husband and his family to make Lila and Enzo's lives turn around. They became the first people in Naples to learn and master computer technology. Their tenacious and tenacious learning ability allowed them to begin to accumulate huge wealth. It was hard to decide between Lila and me again. After marriage, "I" began to face his own creative crisis, and the peaceful, middle-class marriage also made "I" exhausted. Pietro, who is quite indifferent to social changes, hopes that "I" will give up his identity as a writer. However, when "I" play the roles of "mother" and "wife", I cannot avoid inner division and tension...

Two women's 50-year friendship and war! It has sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages, including "My Genius Girlfriend", "The Story of a New Name", "Leaving, Staying" and "The Missing Child".