A review by litanydeshincoe
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

"when Alberto asked me to marry him I said yes. I asked him how he expected to live with me if he was in love with somebody else, and he said that if I loved him very much and was very brave we might make out very well together." Dude deserved to be shot in between the eyes. genius writing, gossipy but deadly unsentimental. 

As iff Katy Perry's Hot and Cold were written by an Italian Jew in 1947