The Christmas Present and other stories

by Grazia Deledda, Graham Anderson

Overview

A native of Sardinia, Grazia Deledda’s novels are mostly set in the rugged hills around her home town of Nuoro. Her characters reflect the difficult lives of people still constrained by ancient customs and practices. Her voice is powerful, her tone often sombre. But her wide-ranging talent had a sunnier side, revealed in many of her later works. The Christmas Present, first published in 1930, brings together a collection of folk tales, children’s stories and personal reminiscences that portray with humour and affection the lighter side of Sardinian life. This is a book that will charm and delight, opening a window on to the Sardinia of old and the formative influences on a Nobel laureate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781915568366
Publisher:	Dedalus Ebooks
Publication date:	01/01/2020
Series:	Dedalus European Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	142
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) 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 in 1899 for Cagliari where she meets her husband, a civil servant, and they go to Rome in 1900. 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.
Graham Anderson was born in London. After reading French and Italian at Cambridge, he worked on the books pages of City Limits and reviewed fiction for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph. As a translator, he has developed versions of French plays, both classic and contemporary, for the NT and the Gate Theatre, with performances both on the UK and in the USA. He has translated ten books for Dedalus, 5 from French and 5 from Italian including two short story collections and one novel by Grazia Deledda.