Cenizas

Cenizas, written by Grazia Deledda, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1926, tells the poignant story of Olí, a young peasant woman who falls in love with a married man, Anania. After becoming pregnant, she is abandoned by him and expelled from her family home. In a desperate act, Olí leaves her seven-year-old son at her father's house, and as he grows up, he embarks on a quest to find his estranged mother, confronting the stigma of having a lost parent. This novel explores themes of love, abandonment, and societal judgment.