Natalia Ginzburg

The Dry Heart (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Frenaye, Frances

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: I shot him between the eyes. As the talea plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitternessproceeds, 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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811228794
• Artikelnr.: 59589456

Autorenporträt

Natalia Ginzburg (19161991), who authored twelve books and two plays; who, because of anti-Semitic laws, sometimes couldn't publish under her own name; who raised five children and lost her husband to Fascist torture; who was elected to the Italian parliament as an independent in her late sixtiesthis woman does not take her present conditions as a given. She asks us to fight back against them, to be brave and resolute. She instructs us to ask for better, for ourselves and for our children (Belle Boggs, The New Yorker).