My Brilliant Friend
Two girls grow up in a rough Naples neighbourhood in the 1950s, bound by a fierce friendship and rivalry that will shape both their lives.
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A village boy turned driver narrates, with dark humour, how he clawed his way out of poverty in a booming, unequal India.
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