| Author: | Antonio Tabucchi | ISBN: | 9780914671251 |
| Publisher: | Steerforth Press | Publication: | November 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Archipelago | Language: | English |
| Author: | Antonio Tabucchi |
| ISBN: | 9780914671251 |
| Publisher: | Steerforth Press |
| Publication: | November 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Archipelago |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
