It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, "you don't tell a life...you live a life, and while you're living it, it's already lost, h
Tristano Dies: A Life
✍ Scribed by Tabucchi, Antonio
- Book ID
- 109287863
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 395 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780914671251
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✦ Synopsis
It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, "you don't tell a life...you live a life, and while you're living it, it's already lost, has slipped away." Tristano Dies , one of Antonio Tabucchi's major novels, is a vibrant consideration of love, war, devotion, betrayal, and the instability of the past, of storytelling, and what it means to be a hero.
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