The Dry Heart
'I took the revolver out of his desk drawer and shot him between the eyes.'Four years before she shoots her husband and walks to a café for a coffee, a lonely young woman living in a boarding house meets an older man called Alberto. They go for long walks along the river and on the outskirts of the city; they look like lovers, although they're not.Alberto doesn't tell her anything about himself and she asks few questions. Still, with little else to distract her, she lets her imagination run wild and convinces herself to fall in love. Though he doesn't feel the same, Alberto asks her to marry him and they have a baby. But Alberto is a man who…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-911547-61-7
- EAN: 9781911547617
- Produktnummer: 36198852
- Verlag: Daunt Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) was born in Sicily and is regarded as one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century. She wrote dozens of essays, plays, and novels, including Voices in the Evening, All Our Yesterdays, and Family Lexicon, which won the prestigious Strega Prize in 1963. She was involved in activism throughout her life, and served in the Italian parliament from 1983 to 1987.
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