by Grazia Deledda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781090375292
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Elias Portolu is a novel by the Italian writer Grazia Deledda, published in 1903. The story takes place in rural Sardinia and explores themes of forbidden love, guilt, and redemption. Elias Portolu, the protagonist, faces a moral dilemma when he falls in love with his brother's fiancée. The novel offers a deep insight into the customs and traditions of Sardinian society, as well as the complexities of human relationships.
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
