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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52214782 Title: Ashes Author: Grazia Deledda; Janice M Kozma Publisher: Fairleigh : Dickinson University Press, ©2004. ISBN/ISSN: 0838640036 9780838640036 OCLC:52214782

  
  

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• Unmarried mothers -- Fiction.
• Parent and child -- Fiction.
• Sardinia (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

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Ashes

Author:	Grazia Deledda; Janice M Kozma
Publisher:	Fairleigh : Dickinson University Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format:	Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"Ashes is the story of Oli, a Sardinian unwed mother who is forced by poverty to abandon her only child. Raised by his genetic father, Ananias eventually attains social acceptability in the legal profession yet cannot give up his obsessive search for his mother. When Oli realizes that public knowledge of her life in prostitution will jeopardize her son's impending marriage and professional success, she makes the ultimate maternal sacrifice to ensure his future. Deledda's novel explores the themes of filial duty, hypocritical societal expectations, the ravages of poverty, and maternal devotion. The author interweaves into the novel leitmotifs of Sardinian folklore, health issues, banditry, illegitimacy, prostitution, and the social mores of the late nineteenth century with all the attendant public opprobrium.". "In this novel Deledda is especially trenchant on the predicament of Sardinian women living in a dangerously unforgiving, patronistic, and repressive world. She wrote Ashes specifically for her friend, the celebrated state actress Eleonora Duse (Italy's "Sarah Bernhardt"). In fact, Duse's first motion picture was Cenere, a classic of Italian film history. The novel lends itself well to the gritty, realistic film genre, as it is a scathing indicting of the deplorable social situation for women in the Sardinia of the last fin de siecle. An expose of class and gender inequality and the tragic poverty on the island, Ashes fits well with Verismo, its contemporary movement in literature and lyric opera."--BOOK JACKET.  Read more...
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