The Tartar Steppe

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ISBN-10:

1567923046

ISBN-13:

9781567923049

Author(s): Dino Buzzati
Released: Nov 01, 2005
Publisher: Verba Mundi
Format: Paperback, 198 pages
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Description:

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe... A Verba Mundi book.












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