{"product_id":"ivy-9781599103792","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12471912\"\u003eGrazia Deledda\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Italica Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781599103792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1599103796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC044000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC050000\"\u003eCrime\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Italica Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44573830676717,"sku":"9781599103792","price":26.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_440abbd5-891a-410f-a160-aab5559cb997.jpg?v=1701978728","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/ivy-9781599103792","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}