In 1926 Grazia Deledda won the Nobel Prize for literature, making her, at the time, only the second woman to receive such an honor. This powerful and tragic tale of murder and infidelity is set, like many of her novels, on her native Sardinia. Evocative of the pre-Christian era in the Mediterranean, it tells of what happens when a suspected murderer learns from prison that his wife is remarrying.  (ITL196, $17.00)

Sardinia