In Benny and Shrimp, Katarina Mazetti brilliantly captures the intensity of an unexpected love affair, and the heartbreaking inevitability with which life tends to get in the way.
In alternate chapters, Benny and "Shrimp" tell the story of a love started by mistake in a village cemetery, a love that should not be as complicated as it seems. She is a young widow with a sharp intellect and tidy home. He is a milk farmer, a reluctant loner, who fears becoming an Old Bachelor. The attraction between them is powerful. But how will she accept that he falls asleep at the opera and has a house full of his mother's wall hangings, and how could he ever feel at home in her apartment, bare as a waiting room?
