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Elias Portolu (European Classics)
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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 his brother's fiancée. But he finds himself trapped by social and religious strictures, his passion and guilt winding into a spiral of anguish and paralysing indecision. For guidance he turns first to the village priest, who advises him to resist temptation; then he turns to the pagan "father of the woods," who recognises the weakness of human will and urges him to declare his love before it is too ... Read more
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 his brother's fiancée. But he finds himself trapped by social and religious strictures, his passion and guilt winding into a spiral of anguish and paralysing indecision. For guidance he turns first to the village priest, who advises him to resist temptation; then he turns to the pagan "father of the woods," who recognises the weakness of human will and urges him to declare his love before it is too ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810112513
SKU
V9780810112513
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