by Grazia Deledda · Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783125658301
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«L'edera» is the novel by Italian writer Grazia Deledda, published by Klett (Ernst) Verlag, Stuttgart in paperback (96 pages, in Italian).
Set in a Sardinian village at the beginning of the 20th century, it tells of the economic ruin of the Decherchi, an aristocratic family that takes in an elderly, sick relative, ziu Zua, in exchange for money. Annesa, the young protagonist, cares for him while everyone awaits his death; in this atmosphere, love between Annesa and Paulu is hinted at.
The novel was originally published in 1908; this 1978 edition belongs to the Easy Readers series.
Edition aimed at students of Italian who are beginning to read classics.
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.
