by Grazia Deledda · Opportunity Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788881111152
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Elias Portolu» is the novel by Grazia Deledda, published by Opportunity Books in paperback (156 pages, in Italian).
Set in rural Sardinia, the novel follows Elias Portolu, a young man who returns to his village after leaving prison. Amid the pastoral landscape and customs of a closed society, Elias experiences an impossible love for Maddalena, his brother's wife, and a conflict between passion, honor and conscience.
The 1995 edition belongs to the Biblioteca Ideale Tascabile collection, number 45. The novel originally appeared in 1903.
Recommended for readers of Italian classics and for those who want to discover Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926.
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.
