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by Grazia Deledda Translated by M.G. Steegman Original title: La madre
Structured like a classical tragedy, this is a ‘Portrait in Black’ of the harrowing conflict between love and duty, between an individual and the law. The conflict occurs within the narrow confines of a Sardinian village, (more...)
by Grazia Deledda Translated by Martha King Original title: Cosima
Grazia Deledda was a noted writer of the 1920s from a poor corner of Sardinia and this is her only discernibly autobiographical work, where she tells the story of her childhood and youth, paying attention to interior realities as much as exterior ones. It’s a diary in the form of a novel, (more...)
by Grazia Deledda Translated by M King Original title: Elias Portolu
Elias Portolu is an emblematic story of the head-on collision between the modern civilisation of bourgeois individualism and the archaic law of the clan which still prevails among the Sardinian people. The novel follows the story of a young man, Elias Portolu, (more...)