Elias Portolu

Grazia Deledda

first published 1903 Northwestern University Press, 1995 194 pages

Oscar Mondadori

"After 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 Maddalena, his brother's fiancee. 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 to the village priest, who advises him t...

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Elias Portolu edition · 2007 · Il Maestrale · 232 pages · 9788889801314
Elias Portolu edition · 1995 · Northwestern University Press · 194 pages
Elias Portolu edition · 1992 · Quartet Encounters · 194 pages
Elias Portolu edition · 1970 · A. Mondadori · 191 pages

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