In a remote and superstitious Sardinian hill village, the young priest Paulo has fallen in love with Agnese, a lonely woman of the parish, and his mother, who sacrificed everything to see him ordained, discovers it. Over two days of mounting tension the two struggle against each other and themselves, with the whole village looking on.
A taut, tragic novel by the Sardinian writer who received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature. Download the free EPUB.