{"product_id":"ivy-hardcover-1","title":"Ivy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrazia Deledda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMary Ann Frese Witt\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eMartha Witt\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnesa, one of Grazia Deledda's most enigmatic and dramatic characters, battles with a guilt she suffers when her own strength tempts her to a crime that will save others who won't save themselves. Annesa has tragically attached herself to the tree of the Decherchi family, once noble but now dry-rotting on hard times. Her lover, Paulu Decherchi, compares her to a suffocating ivy clinging to the dead trunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistraught almost to the point of madness, Annesa finally cuts herself free from her adopted family. Escaping arrest for a wealthy relative's death -- and fleeing the men who dictate the laws that control the lives of women and the poor -- she imposes her own punishment of exile. But she will return to the impoverished Decherchis to complete her penance after she has purified her soul and found her own peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnesa's fate and destiny are co-joined to the wild Sardinian landscape, described in Ivy with a passion only hinted at in Deledda's other works. Its brooding and wild mountains scarred with haunted caves create an atmosphere weighed down by poverty, prejudice, and ill omen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany consider \u003cem\u003eIvy\u003c\/em\u003e to be Deledda's best work, surpassing even \u003cem\u003eElias Portolu\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eReeds in the Wind (Canne al vento).\u003c\/em\u003e Here she deeply probes the misguided but altruistic motivation of a woman totally dependent on others who lack her own moral fortitude. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeledda won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1926, writing fiction set in Sardinia, mining it deeply and evoking its people and their character. \u003cem\u003eIvy, \u003c\/em\u003e Deledda's third novel, was originally published in 1908 in Italian as \u003cem\u003eL'Edera\u003c\/em\u003e and has never been previously published in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst English translation. Introduction, notes, bibliography. 198 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43157697462335,"sku":"9781599103785","price":60.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/wMVnB3Gand9781599103785.webp?v=1776983516","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/ivy-hardcover-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}