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Title: THE TARTAR STEPPE
By: Dino Buzzati, Tim Parks, Tim Parks
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 1841959286
ISBN 13: 9781841959283
Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 5 April, 2007
Edition: Main
Pages: 288
Translated from: Italian
Description: The seminal work from one of Europe's foremost experimental writers of the twentieth century
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Canongate Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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