by Grazia Deledda · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788881830893
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A collection of short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author Grazia Deledda, focusing on the rugged life and deep-seated traditions of Sardinia. The book captures the intense emotions and moral dilemmas of its characters against the backdrop of the Italian island's unique landscape.
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.
