After the Divorce: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

After the Divorce, credited to Grazia Deledda, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda. (Translated by Maria Hornor Lansdale.) Read in English by Tom Denholm. 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: After the Divorce
• Author credits: Grazia Deledda
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 10:11:45

Catalogue topics

• Catholicism
• feminism
• Nobel Prize
• divorce
• landscape
• imprisonment
• Sardinia

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 35:26
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 29:52
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 28:03
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 20:34
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 11:33
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 40:48
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 41:42
8. 08 - Chapter 8, Part 1 — 34:50
9. 09 - Chapter 8, Part 2 — 31:39
10. 10 - Chapter 9 — 32:08
11. 11 - Chapter 10 — 30:27
12. 12 - Chapter 11 — 30:11
13. 13 - Chapter 12 — 41:43
14. 14 - Chapter 13 — 27:41
15. 15 - Chapter 14 — 26:54
16. 16 - Chapter 15 — 29:26
17. 17 - Chapter 16 — 27:17
18. 18 - Chapter 17 — 26:38
19. 19 - Epilogue, Part 1 — 37:27
20. 20 - Epilogue, Part 2 — 27:26

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