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The Church of Solitude

The Church of Solitude

Deledda, Grazia
Matter, E. Ann

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0791454584
ISBN13: 9780791454589
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 15 2002
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.

The Church of Solitude tells the story of Maria Concezione, a young Sardinian seamstress living with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century. Overwhelmed by the shame of her diagnosis, she decides that no one can know what has happened to her, but the heavy burden of this secrecy changes her life in dramatic ways and almost causes the destruction of several people in her life. This surprising novel paints the portrait of a woman facing the unknown with courage, faith, and self-reliance, and is the last and most autobiographical work of Grazia Deledda, who died of breast cancer in 1936, shortly after its publication. An afterword by the translator offers additional information on the author and examines the social and historical environment of that time.

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