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
"Her simplicity is an achievement, hard-won and remarkable, and the more welcome in a literary world where the cloak of omniscience is all too readily donned."—The New York Times Book Review
The city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of The City and the House is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is
