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A review by franfernandezarce
After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda
3.0
*3.5*
in 2017, it was the year of virginia woolf. in 2018, it was the year of marcel proust. in 2019, it will be the year of the female nobel prize laureates. hurrah!
FEBRUARY: grazia deledda (won in 1926, 17 years after the first woman, selma lagerlöf)
according to the nobel commity, deledda won due to her "idealistically inspired writings, which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general." i would say that sounds about right.
there's nothing trully spectacular about this novel. the title itself gives away the ending (not the mention of a divorce, because that seems fairly obvious but the subtitle of being a romance ) although i wouldn't really complain about it. i don't really have much to complain about this novel overall. i didn't dislike it neither i loved it. certainly, i would recommend it--although i wouldn't put it at the top of my list of recent reads to recommend.
quite neither here nor there. to be honest, this book was too short to achieve more than it set out to do.
in terms of style, it reminded me to [b:Three Cheers for the Paraclete|1347891|Three Cheers for the Paraclete|Thomas Keneally|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1189649009s/1347891.jpg|1890577]. very simple and domestic without being actually dull; which, i suppose, amounts much to the author's talent as well as the translator's. in terms of the plot, the premise makes it sound as if the stakes are much higher than what they actually are. i was expecting something a bit more soap-oper-ish; instead, it was nothing of the sort. it is, indeed, dramatic, just not overly.
it more or less amounts to an autumn read, its brevity assuring you a comfortable read for a single afternoon while you relax and not worry about much.
in 2017, it was the year of virginia woolf. in 2018, it was the year of marcel proust. in 2019, it will be the year of the female nobel prize laureates. hurrah!
FEBRUARY: grazia deledda (won in 1926, 17 years after the first woman, selma lagerlöf)
according to the nobel commity, deledda won due to her "idealistically inspired writings, which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general." i would say that sounds about right.
there's nothing trully spectacular about this novel. the title itself gives away the ending (not the mention of a divorce, because that seems fairly obvious but the subtitle of being a romance ) although i wouldn't really complain about it. i don't really have much to complain about this novel overall. i didn't dislike it neither i loved it. certainly, i would recommend it--although i wouldn't put it at the top of my list of recent reads to recommend.
quite neither here nor there. to be honest, this book was too short to achieve more than it set out to do.
in terms of style, it reminded me to [b:Three Cheers for the Paraclete|1347891|Three Cheers for the Paraclete|Thomas Keneally|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1189649009s/1347891.jpg|1890577]. very simple and domestic without being actually dull; which, i suppose, amounts much to the author's talent as well as the translator's. in terms of the plot, the premise makes it sound as if the stakes are much higher than what they actually are. i was expecting something a bit more soap-oper-ish; instead, it was nothing of the sort. it is, indeed, dramatic, just not overly.
it more or less amounts to an autumn read, its brevity assuring you a comfortable read for a single afternoon while you relax and not worry about much.