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 bitterness - 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 tobeg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands? | The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg, Paperback | Indigo Chapters