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Publisher: Canongate
Author: Dino Buzzati
ISBN: 9781786891648
Year: 2018
Format: Paperback
Fiction, Magical Realism
The Tartar Steppe
by
Dino Buzzati
The Tartar Steppe by
Dino Buzzati
Reviews
"It is not often that a masterpiece falls into one’s hands. But The Tartar Steppe is undoubtedly a masterpiece, a sublime book, and Muzzati a master of the written word"
Sunday Times
Summary
Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trace of the enemy. As his length of service stretches from months into years, he continues to wait patiently for the enemy to advance across the desert, for one great and glorious battle.
Written in 1938 as the world waited for war, and internationally acclaimed since its publication, The Tartar Steppe is a provocative and frightening tale of hope, longing and the terrible sorcery of dreams and desires
