After the Divorce
Author: first_name: Grazia
last_name: Deledda
Language: English
Year: 1905

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.  <br>

As well as enduring a marriage amounting to slavery, Giovanna is derided by villagers for having two husb