'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 revenge 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?
| ISBN: | 9781911547600 |
| Publication date: | 20th May 2021 |
| Author: | Natalia Ginzburg |
| Publisher: | European Schoolbooks an imprint of Daunt Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Genres: |
Fiction in translation |
'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 revenge 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?
The Dry Heart features in the following genres: Fiction in translation
The Dry Heart is available in Paperback
The Dry Heart was written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by European Schoolbooks an imprint of Daunt Books
The Dry Heart has 112 pages
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