The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement, “I shot him between the eyes.” Everything in between is a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—
Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernandez, “a writer like no other,” as Italo Calvino declares in his introduction: “like no European or Latin A
