L'arcobaleno by D.H. Lawrence

A sweeping, intimate chronicle of three generations of an English family in the Midlands, the novel traces the Brangwens’ marriages, births and conflicts as industrial change and shifting social mores reshape their lives. At its heart is Ursula, a restless and enquiring young woman whose search for sexual, emotional and spiritual fulfilment drives the narrative; through her relationships and inner struggles the book probes desire, marriage, family duty, class tensions and the clash between human longings and a mechanizing modern world, building toward a fraught, yearning quest for personal wholeness and a new form of human connection.