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The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati, Tim Parks, Stuart C. Hood, Tim Parks is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.ReviewUndoubtedly a masterpiece . . . [Buzzati] has brought to life a universal man and cast his being in surrounding which are familiar to us all . . . It is a sublime book and Buzzati a master of the written word. --Sunday Times "Buzzati's take on military matters is ambiguous. He makes much of the elaborate system of passwords at the fort -- a system that leads to one officer's death -- or the coded music of bugle calls, as well as the way in which time itself is stratified and su

Who reads The Tartar Steppe?

Author

Dino Buzzati, Tim Parks, Stuart C. Hood, Tim Parks

Publisher

Canongate Books

Published

1940

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847677570

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.13 / 5 (5,025 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14