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TRANSLATED BY FRANCES FRENAYE 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? 'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' -- Guardian 'Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like.' -- Rachel Cusk 'Her prose style is deceptively simple and very complex. Its effect on the reader is both calming and thrilling that s not so easy to do.'-- Deborah Levy
