On the very first page of this novella we meet with a woman shooting her husband right through the eyes. We then get a mystery in reverse kind of in which the crime is already plain and in sight and we know the guilty party. We also quickly come to understand that this isn’t a “he beat me and even though it wasn’t in direct reaction to a threat” kind of self-defense novel like you get with many others. Instead, this novel explores the callous […]
“Tell me the truth,” I said.
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg