
A weary schoolteacher finally hangs up his chalk after forty years, and with the quiet of an empty classroom behind him, he resolves to chase a restless yearning that has lingered since his youth. He once cared for an orphan boy, tried his hand at sea, as a beach warden and a guard, and even married the widow of a vineyard owner, yet none of those chapters satisfied the deeper pull toward something beyond the familiar hills of his homeland.
Now, aboard a rattling train that cuts through mist‑cloaked valleys and winds along jagged coastlines, he watches the world blur past: endless poplar rows, dark tunnels that swallow light, and open fields where rivers glint like blue glass. The journey is both a physical escape and a quiet pilgrimage, tinged with nervous anticipation as he arrives at a modest station that feels oddly empty, leaving him to wonder whether the promised destination lies just beyond the horizon or in the very act of moving forward.
Language
fi
Duration
~6 hours (353K characters)
Release date
Jan 29, 2025
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1871–1936
A Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Sardinia, she turned island life, local traditions, and deep moral conflicts into stories that still feel vivid and human. Her fiction often blends stark realism with compassion for people caught between duty, desire, and fate.
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