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The Tartar Steppe

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The Tartar Steppe

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Author: Dino Buzzati
Publisher: Martin Secker, 1952
Original Italian publication, 1940
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Book Type: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
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Young Giovanni Drogo arrives at the bleak border area of the Tartar Steppe where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, an encampment 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. Despite, or because of, the fact that they tell him he is perfectly free to leave, he waits for one great and glorious endeavour. Internationally acclaimed since its publication in 1945, The Tartar Steppe is a provocative and frightening tale of hope, longing and the terrible sorcery of the magnificent gesture.

The book was twenty-ninth in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.


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