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The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

290 pages

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Young Giovanni arrives at the bleak border area of the Tartar Steppe where he is to take an assignment at Fort Bastiani. As his length of service stretches from months into years, he continues to wait for the enemy to advance across the desert. Despite, or because, they tell him he is free to leave, he waits for one great and glorious endeavour.

Themes
Melancholic & NostalgicDark & BroodingThought-ProvokingWhat Does It All Mean?Slow BurnThe agony of waitingIllusion of purposeInevitable passage of time
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