{"product_id":"ivy-13","title":"Ivy","description":"\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","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46559037358290,"sku":"9781599103792","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5c06dfc2-3c41-4ff9-84cc-a39af37afbda.jpg?v=1762835274","url":"https:\/\/iandigo.com\/products\/ivy-13","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}