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Grazia Deledda is an Italian writer who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her poetry, which describes the life of her native island with plastic clarity, and for her depth of approach to human problems in general." The 1904 novel The Ashes is one of the most controversial and interesting works by Grazia Deledda. It is a dramatic story of a lonely woman's relationship with her own son, a story of renunciation and forgiveness, love and hatred, a story of overcoming social stereotypes of patriarchal society and humility. The plot is based on the fate of a young man who, through the prism of resentment and love for his mother, through the experience of childhood trauma, tries to find himself, while searching for answers to eternal questions. The novel "Ashes" is for the reader who wants to understand and find an answer to the question of what drives a person, what is important for the feeling of happiness: love, hate, forgiveness? The answers, as always, are in the text, in which, like "in the ashes, the light of knowledge often glows."