Cosima, a novel published posthumously, is Grazia Deledda's most personal work. Suggestive landscapes of her native Sardinia, fable and legend settings, show characters locked in the monotonous existence of a small provincial capital, in which everything appears regulated by iron customary laws. Almost since she was a child, little Grazia-Cósima will rebel against these unwritten laws, sensing that such restrictions collide head-on with her desire for freedom and knowledge. Despite the proximity of death or perhaps precisely because of it, Cósima is a vital work, a testament to survival, in which memories and experiences lived in Nuoro, and so many uses and customs of the island, emerge with force and imagination. Grazia Deledda received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.
