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
The Tartar Steppe
โ Scribed by Buzzati, Dino
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1847677576
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