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The Tartar Steppe
The Tartar Steppe | Dino Buzzati, Stuart Hood
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 finds that years have passed, almost without his noticing, as he has come to share his fellow-soldiers' patient vigil. At last the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade - until the hour that the enemy begins massing on the desolate horizon...
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The Tartar Steppe | Dino Buzzati, Stuart Hood
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We combined two episodes into one this week. First, we nominate some legal thrillers for our thriller book club that we have a great time doing over on our patreon. (No pressure to join but our patreons get exclusive episodes and help us select books to read) And finally we nominate and select a new September book to read. Fun episode all around. Hope you enjoy!

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rakeshpm
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Detailed review here-:https://myliteraryramblings.in/2020/06/20/the-tartar-steppe-dino-buzzati/

Anna40 Hmm. Read this at uni but can't remember much of it, only that I didn't like it 😂 but that was so many years ago. Might give it another try 4y
rakeshpm @Anna40 sure. You should give it a try. Thank you :) 4y
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rakeshpm
The Tartar Steppe | Dino Buzzati, Stuart Hood
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Mesmerizing novel...

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The Tartar Steppe | Dino Buzzati, Stuart Hood

Now he felt a certain bitterness, a dark shadow, such as come when moments of destiny pass us by without touching us and the noise of their passing dies away in the distance while we remain alone amid a swirl of dead leaves lamenting the great – and terrible – opportunity we have lost." (from "The Tartar Steppe (Canons Book 90)" by Dino Buzzati, Tim Parks, Stuart C. Hood)

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The Tartar Steppe | Dino Buzzati, Stuart Hood

Reading this now

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Il deserto dei Tartari | Dino Buzzati
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Il deserto dei Tartari | Dino Buzzati
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melosomelo
Il deserto dei Tartari | Dino Buzzati
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Amazing book. Amazing characters. Amazing writing. Dino makes even a desert and a lonely fort into an interesting place to be in. Really resonated with me, especially concerning the things we sacrifice to achieve our "desired" goals.

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DreesReads
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What an odd book. I couldn‘t stop reading, even though not much happens—which is part of the point. And everything that does happen is heartbreaking. #1001books #reading1001

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vini2
O deserto dos trtaros | Dino Buzzati
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Very Nice book

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Moray_Reads
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What a strangely compelling book! Young officer Giovanni Drogo is posted to a remote fortress high in the mountains bordering the tartar steppe. There he waits for an enemy no-one had seen for generations. Buzzati's writing has a hypnotic quality, at once languid and laced with tension that perfectly relays the feeling of monotony and the desperation for something to happen ⬇️

Moray_Reads It mediates on hope and dying dreams as well as the dangerous, paralysing hold of routine, the fear of a life without meaning. Published in 1938 the idea of the soldier's almost desperate wait for war is at once disturbing and heartbreaking. Buzzati pulls the reader under the spell of the beautifully described landscape and the unchanging passage of time until the possibility of war is a troubling relief. 6y
vivastory Excellent review, I've been meaning to read this for awhile. Book 400?! If there was a readers hall of fame, you would be included! 6y
Moray_Reads @vivastory definitely worth a read, I loved it (and thanks 😊) 6y
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BarbaraBB
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Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is stationed in a fortress in the mountains, where the military have been waiting for centuries for the Tartar. No one has ever seen them, nor is there any way they could have attacked the fortress by surprise because there are no roads at all.
With little to do, Drogo decides to leave as soon as possible. He stays however for more than 40 years and watches his life going by in an endless daily routine. #1001books