Short description: "Cosima" tells the story of an aspiring writer growing up in Nuoro, Sardinia during the last decades of the nineteenth century when formal education for women was rare and literary

Cosima
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Short description: "Cosima" tells the story of an aspiring writer growing up in Nuoro, Sardinia during the last decades of the nineteenth century when formal education for women was rare and literary careers unheard-of. Based on Deleddaâ€™s own life, the work describes a young womanâ€™s struggle against the dismay and disapproval of her family and friends at her creative ambitions. Yet it also reads like a charming fable with details of family life, rural traditions and wild bandits, and it is as much a novel of memory as of character or action. Deleddaâ€™s characters are poor country folk driven by some predetermined force. Their loves are tragic, their lives as hard and as rigidly controlled as nature itself in the hills of Sardinia. Deledda creates memorable figures who play out their lives against this backdrop of mountains and bare plains, sheepfolds and vineyards. Shimmering in the distance is the sea and escape â€” for a few â€” to the Continent or America. In 1926 Grazia Deledda became the second woman and the second Italian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She wrote thirty-three novels, including "Reeds in the Wind," and many books of short stories, almost all set on Sardinia. Her work has become well known to English-speaking readers through Martha Kingâ€™s translations for Italica Press.
Country USA
Brand Italica Press
Manufacturer Italica Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Refer to Sapnet.
ReleaseDate 2008-09-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780934977067

Country	USA
Brand	Italica Press
Manufacturer	Italica Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
ReleaseDate	2008-09-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780934977067

Cosima

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