The Dry Heart

One sentence synopsis... A 1947 novella about an Italian woman's unhappy marriage which begins and ends with the pronouncement: ‘I shot him between the eyes'.

Read it if you like... themes of family, failed relationships, and Italian literature a la Ferrante. The style reminds me of Sally Rooney - extremely up close with the characters but you come away feeling they're so much more to them that could be said still. Descriptions of setting written very play like.

Dream casting... Stanley Tucci has to be Alberto the disappointing husband who fancies himself an artist and intellectual but constantly misquotes Proust.