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Reeds in the Wind

1999 Fiction
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Release : 1999
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reeds in the Wind by : Grazia Deledda

Download or read book Reeds in the Wind written by Grazia Deledda. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rugged landscape of Baronia on Sardinia sets the scene for this novel of crime, guilt and retribution. This novel presents the story of the Pintor sisters - from a family of noble landowners now in decline - their nephew Giacinto, and their servant Efix, who is trying to make up for a mysterious sin committed many years before. Around, below, and inside them the raging Mediterranean storms, the jagged mountains, the murmuring forests, and the gushing springs form a Greek chorus of witness to the tragic drama of this unforgiving land. Deledda tells her story with her characteristic love of the natural landscape and fascination with the folk culture of the island, with details about the famous religious festivals held in mountain encampments and the lore of the "dark beings who populate the Sardinian night, the fairies who live in rocks and caves, and the sprites with seven red caps who bother sleep." Introduction by the Sardinian ethnographer, Dolores Turchi.

The Wind in the Reeds

2015-09-08 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2015-09-08
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 705/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Wind in the Reeds by : Wendell Pierce

Download or read book The Wind in the Reeds written by Wendell Pierce. This book was released on 2015-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Christopher Award Winner From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including Pontchartrain Park, the home of Wendell Pierce's family and the first African American middle-class subdivision in New Orleans. The hurricane breached many of the city's levees, and the resulting flooding submerged Pontchartrain Park under as much as 20 feet of water. Katrina left New Orleans later that day, but for the next three days the water kept relentlessly gushing into the city, plunging eighty percent of New Orleans under water. Nearly 1,500 people were killed. Half the houses in the city had four feet of water in them—or more. There was no electricity or clean water in the city; looting and the breakdown of civil order soon followed. Tens of thousands of New Orleanians were stranded in the city, with no way out; many more evacuees were displaced, with no way back in. Pierce and his family were some of the lucky ones: They survived and were able to ride out the storm at a relative's house 70 miles away. When they were finally allowed to return, they found their family home in tatters, their neighborhood decimated. Heartbroken but resilient, Pierce vowed to help rebuild, and not just his family's home, but all of Pontchartrain Park. In this powerful and redemptive narrative, Pierce brings together the stories of his family, his city, and his history, why they are all worth saving and the critical importance art played in reuniting and revitalizing this unique American city.

The Wind Among the Reeds

1903 Irish poetry
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Release : 1903
Genre : Irish poetry
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Book Synopsis The Wind Among the Reeds by : William Butler Yeats

Download or read book The Wind Among the Reeds written by William Butler Yeats. This book was released on 1903. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

After the Divorce

1995 Fiction
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Release : 1995
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 490/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis After the Divorce by : Grazia Deledda

Download or read book After the Divorce written by Grazia Deledda. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature In this tragic novel set in the author's native Sardinia, Constantino Ledda has been convicted and sentenced for the murder of his cruel uncle. Though innocent of the crime, he accepts the verdict as punishment for marrying Giovanna Era through a civil ceremony rather than an expensive church wedding. When Constantino is taken away, Giovanna has no way to provide for herself or family, and out of desperation divorces her husband and marries a wealthy but brutish landowner. When the real killer confesses and Constantino is released, he and Giovanna begin a forbidden and ultimately destructive affair.

The Church of Solitude

2012-02-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 187/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Church of Solitude by : Grazia Deledda

Download or read book The Church of Solitude written by Grazia Deledda. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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