Das trockene Herz

Author/Contributor(s):	Ginzburg, Natalia ; Frenaye, Frances
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date:	06/25/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: "I shot him between the eyes." As the tale--a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness--proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?