{"product_id":"2026200016497-secondhand-cosima","title":"Cosima","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the rugged, tradition-bound landscape of nineteenth-century Sardinia, a young girl named Cosima burns with an ambition that her society can scarcely comprehend — the fierce, unrelenting desire to become a writer. Cosima is the semi-autobiographical masterpiece by Nobel Prize-winning author Grazia Deledda, a luminous and intimate portrait of her own coming-of-age, chronicling the tension between a woman's inner creative life and the suffocating expectations of her provincial world. With quiet intensity, the narrative uncovers the trials of a sensitive, gifted mind navigating family tragedy, social constraint, and the enduring pull of artistic vocation against a backdrop of ancient Sardinian customs.\n\nDeledda's prose, rendered here in elegant translation, carries the same earthy, mythic power that defines her wider body of work, presenting Sardinia not merely as a setting but as a living, breathing force that shapes its characters' destinies. Left unfinished at her death in 1936 and published posthumously, Cosima stands as both a literary testament and a deeply personal confession — a final gift from one of Italy's most significant voices. Readers who enter its pages will find themselves asking, long after the last line, how much of the world Cosima conquered, and how much she was forced to leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336817385691,"sku":"2026200016497-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c9c6f6ef-7d1a-4b0f-b7b2-6e14839d0e95.png?v=1789958763","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016497-secondhand-cosima","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}