by Grazia Deledda · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475303635
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«Elías Portolu» is the novel by Italian writer Grazia Deledda, published by Orbis in hardcover (in Spanish).
Set in rural Sardinia, the novel follows Elías Portolu, a young man who, after returning from prison, falls in love with Maddalena, his brother's wife. Between passion and remorse, Elías seeks refuge in faith and struggles against the conventions of his community.
The work was originally published in 1903. This 1983 edition belongs to the collection Los premios Nobel, number 60. Its author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926.
Recommended for readers of classics and 20th-century Italian literature, especially those who enjoy rural dramas and stories by female Nobel Prize-winning authors.
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.
