by Grazia Deledda · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781517479060
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«Schilf im Wind» is the novel by Grazia Deledda, published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in paperback (168 pages, in German).
Set in the arid landscapes of Sardinia, it narrates the decline of a noble family and the loyalty of its servants in a world governed by poverty, honor, and superstition. The title evokes reeds bending before the wind, a symbol of human fragility and perseverance in the face of destiny.
The novel was originally published in 1913 as Canne al vento. Grazia Deledda received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926, and this edition is a German translation.
For readers of Italian literary classics and rural stories with a social backdrop.
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.
