Marianna Sirca, orfana di madre, ancora bambina era stata mandata dal padre Berte a servizio da un ricco zio prete. Alla morte di quest'ultimo Marianna riceve una cospicua eredità. Così, sulla soglia dei trent'anni, si ritrova con alle spalle una giovinezza spenta e con la possibilità di decidere per il suo futuro. Quindi dà corso al suo amore da troppo tempo represso, in un giorno di giugno, rincontra un giovane, suo ex servo che ora è diventato bandito, Simone Sole. Nasce una grande passione. Ambedue i personaggi avevano da poco acquistato la loro libertà; quella di lei garantita dalla sua ricchezza, quella di Simone dal suo stare al di fuori dalla società (ma non contro), unico modo disponibile per affermare la propria personalità. Infatti Simone era diventato bandito per ribellione, per sottrarsi alla sua misera condizione, ma non era un sanguinario e da quando viveva alla macchia non si era macchiato di alcun grave delitto. Marianna sceglie di amare senza calcolo, decide così di sposare il bandito. Tuttavia ben presto dopo il divampare della passione subentra il senso della realtà, intervengono le ineludibili convenzioni sociali che richiedono il sacrificio del sogno. Infatti la condizione ineludibile perché il loro amore possa avere un futuro è che Simone dovrà costituirsi per scontare la sua pena.

Marianna Sirca (Italian Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Deledda, Grazia

Literary

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After the divorce, a romance

Parenting & Relationships

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Winner of the 1926 Novel Prize for LiteratureAfter serving time in mainland Italy for a minor theft, Elias Portolu returns home to Nuoro, in rural Sardinia. Lonely and vulnerable after his prison exile, he falls in love with his brother's fiancée. But he finds himself trapped by social and religious strictures, his passion and guilt winding into a spiral of anguish and paralyzing indecision. For guidance he turns first to the village priest, who advises him to resist temptation; then he turns to the pagan "father of the woods," who recognizes the weakness of human will and urges him to declare his love before it is too late.

Elias Portolu (Quartet encounters)

Quartet Books

Giovanna Era divorces her convict husband, but is forced to confront him when he is released from prison

After the Divorce (English and Italian Edition)

History & Criticism

Quartet Books Ltd.

Canne Al Vento (Manchester Italian Texts)

Meiklejohn, Matthew Fontaine Maury

Manchester University Press

The Church of Solitude (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)

A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century. The Church of Solitude tells the story of Maria Concezione, a young Sardinian seamstress living with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century. Overwhelmed by the shame of her diagnosis, she decides that no one can know what has happened to her, but the heavy burden of this secrecy changes her life in dramatic ways and almost causes the destruction of several people in her life. This surprising novel paints the portrait of a woman facing the unknown with courage, faith, and self-reliance, and is the last and most autobiographical work of Grazia Deledda, who died of breast cancer in 1936, shortly after its publication. An afterword by the translator offers additional information on the author and examines the social and historical environment of that time.

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Religion & Spirituality

State University of New York Press

The novel begins with Costantino Ledda's conviction and sentencing for the murder of his cruel uncle. Though innocent of the crime, he accepts the guilty verdict as punishment for marrying Giovanna Era through a civil ceremony rather than an expensive church wedding. When her husband is taken away, Giovanna has no way to provide for herself, her mother, and her son, who soon dies of malnutrition. Out of desperation she divorces Costantino, according to a new law for wives of convicts, and marries a wealthy but brutish landowner. When the true murderer confesses and Costantino returns, he and Giovanna begin a forbidden and ultimately destructive affair.Deleda's tragic story of poverty, passion, and guilt portrays the primitive and remote world of the church, pre-Christian superstitions, and laws dictated from the mainland, in her native Sardinia, where society hangs in a delicate balance. Once this order is disrupted, none of these characters can escape the spiral of destruction dictated by fate, God, and society.

After the Divorce (European Classics)

Contemporary

Northwestern University Press

The novel begins with Costantino Ledda's conviction and sentencing for the murder of his cruel uncle. Though innocent of the crime, he accepts the guilty verdict as punishment for marrying Giovanna Era through a civil ceremony rather than an expensive church wedding. When her husband is taken away, Giovanna has no way to provide for herself, her mother, and her son, who soon dies of malnutrition. Out of desperation she divorces Costantino, according to a new law for wives of convicts, and marries a wealthy but brutish landowner. When the true murderer confesses and Costantino returns, he and Giovanna begin a forbidden and ultimately destructive affair. Deleda's tragic story of poverty, passion, and guilt portrays the primitive and remote world of the church, pre-Christian superstitions, and laws dictated from the mainland, in her native Sardinia, where society hangs in a delicate balance. Once this order is disrupted, none of these characters can escape the spiral of destruction dictated by fate, God, and society.

Elias Portolu (European Classics)

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Marianna Sirca (Italian Edition)

After the divorce, a romance

Elias Portolu (Quartet encounters)

After the Divorce (English and Italian Edition)

Canne Al Vento (Manchester Italian Texts)

The Church of Solitude (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)

The Church of Solitude (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)

After the Divorce (European Classics)

After the Divorce (European Classics)

Elias Portolu (European Classics)