The Tartar Steppe

✍ Scribed by Dino Buzzati

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 1940
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 122 KB
• Edition: Canongate Books (2012)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1847677576
• ASIN: B008BHR9QM

✦ Synopsis

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Kindle Edition, 288 pages
Published: 1940
Edition: Canongate Books (2012)
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Translated from the Italian by: Stuart C. Hood (1952)
Introduction "Throwing Down a Gauntlet" by: Tim Parks (2000)
First published in Italy under the title Il Deserto dei Tartari
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.