Memorie di Fernanda

Di Grazia Deledda

Pubblicato a puntate sulla rivista “Ultima moda” nel 1888, è il primo romanzo della scrittrice nuorese. La storia ruota attorno all’assassinio della madre dell’adolescente Fernanda, Sarah, avvenuto subito dopo la sua nascita. L’omicidio venne commissionato da Fritz Guezmburg, marito della vittima. Presto si scopre che Fernanda non è figlia legittima del marito di Sarah, ma dell’ex amante, Eberto Roslandy. Il vero padre di Fernanda rischia di essere ammazzato anche lui, ma scampa inaspettatamente alla morte e riesce infine a ricongiungersi alla figlia.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: NOR
• Data di uscita: 20 nov 2016
• ISBN: 9788897285809

Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda was born in 1871 in Nuoro, Sardinia. The street has been renamed after her, via Grazia Deledda. She finished her formal education at 11. She published her first short story when she was 16 and her first novel, Stella D'Oriente in 1890 in a Sardinian newspaper when she was 19. Leaves Nuoro for the first time in 1899 and settles in Cagliari, the principal city of Sardinia where she meets the civil servant Palmiro Madesani who she marries in 1900 and they move to Rome. Grazia Deledda writes her best work between 1903-1920 and establishes an international reputation as a novelist. Nearly all of her work in this period is set in Sardinia. Publishes Elias Portolu in 1903. La Madre is published in 1920. She wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 and received it in a ceremony the following year. She dies in 1936 and is buried in the church of Madonna della Solitudine in Nuoro, near to where she was born.