Book :: The Tartar Steppe
| By: | Dino Buzzati |
| Pages: | 198 |
| Published: | 1940 |
| Genre(s): | Italy |
| Fantasy | |
| War | |
| Rating: | (1) |
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Often Likened to Kafka's The Castle, this great Italian novel, first published in 1945, is both a scathing criticism of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drago, who is posted to a remote fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe, the first line of defense against a rumored barbarian invasion. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni one day...
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