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Fleur Jaeggy. La paura del cielo. Milan. Adelphi. 1994. 113 pages. L.20,000. ISBN 88-45910-91-1.
Mr. Heber magnanimously opens his hospice to some derelict, marginal characters, but he ends up neglecting his wife and going to bed with the girls whom he has welcomed into the hospice. The almost demented wife starts to spy on her husband, and in the middle of an argument she is killed by hammer blows dealt her by the husband's paramour of the...