DeleddaI giuochi della vita

Grazia Deledda made one island into a whole world, and won the Nobel Prize for it. In the twelve stories of I giuochi della vita, Sardinia stands complete: shepherds and landowners, feast days and feuds, and over it all a fate that deals out love, property, and death like cards at a table. Her Italian is clear, grave, and close to the land — a prose of stone walls and macchia scrub — and these stories catch her at the height of her art, where the games of life are played for everything.