After the Divorce
Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their extended family. Costantino is wrongly convicted of murdering his wicked uncle and with no way of supporting herself, Giovanna reluctantly divorces him and is driven to marry Brontu Dejas, a wealthy but brutish drunkard who has always lusted after her.
As well as enduring a marriage amounting to slavery, Giovanna is derided by villagers for having two husbands. When Constantino is freed after the real murderer confesses to his crime, he and Giovanna are together again, but this time their relationship is outside the law, and sets both on a path of destruction, at the mercy of religious and social forces they cannot control.
The author, Grazia Deledda, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926, for writings which show passion and sympathy for the people of her native Sardinia, and ‘After the Divorce’ (Dopo il Divorzio) is one of her finest works. - Summary by Tom Denholm
Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Language: English
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Play 01 | Chapter 1 | Tom Denholm |
00:35:26 |
Play 02 | Chapter 2 | Tom Denholm |
00:29:52 |
Play 03 | Chapter 3 | Tom Denholm |
00:28:03 |
Play 04 | Chapter 4 | Tom Denholm |
00:20:34 |
Play 05 | Chapter 5 | Tom Denholm |
00:11:33 |
Play 06 | Chapter 6 | Tom Denholm |
00:40:48 |
Play 07 | Chapter 7 | Tom Denholm |
00:41:42 |
Play 08 | Chapter 8, Part 1 | Tom Denholm |
00:34:50 |
Play 09 | Chapter 8, Part 2 | Tom Denholm |
00:31:39 |
Play 10 | Chapter 9 | Tom Denholm |
00:32:08 |
Play 11 | Chapter 10 | Tom Denholm |
00:30:27 |
Play 12 | Chapter 11 | Tom Denholm |
00:30:11 |
Play 13 | Chapter 12 | Tom Denholm |
00:41:43 |
Play 14 | Chapter 13 | Tom Denholm |
00:27:41 |
Play 15 | Chapter 14 | Tom Denholm |
00:26:54 |
Play 16 | Chapter 15 | Tom Denholm |
00:29:26 |
Play 17 | Chapter 16 | Tom Denholm |
00:27:17 |
Play 18 | Chapter 17 | Tom Denholm |
00:26:38 |
Play 19 | Epilogue, Part 1 | Tom Denholm |
00:37:27 |
Play 20 | Epilogue, Part 2 | Tom Denholm |
00:27:26 |