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After serving time in mainland Italy for a minor theft, Elias Portolu returns home to Nuoro, in rural Sardinia. Lonely and vulnerable after his prison exile, he falls in love with his brother's fiancée. But he finds himself trapped by social and religious strictures, his passion and guilt winding into a spiral of anguish and paralysing indecision.

Elias Portolu

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    A Paperback / softback by Grazia King, Martha Deledda

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/05/1995
      ISBN13: 9780810112513, 978-0810112513
      ISBN10: 0810112515

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      Book Synopsis
      After serving time in mainland Italy for a minor theft, Elias Portolu returns home to Nuoro, in rural Sardinia. Lonely and vulnerable after his prison exile, he falls in love with his brother's fiancée. But he finds himself trapped by social and religious strictures, his passion and guilt winding into a spiral of anguish and paralysing indecision.

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