Tristano Dies: A Life
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,...
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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
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780914671244 (0914671243)
Publisher: Archipelago
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Being a devoted admirer of Antonio Tabucchi, and purchaser of many of his books as gifts for friends and family, I am disappointed to report that this book is unreadable for me. I gave it a go for over a hundred pages, but the torture was unbearable. I wave the white flag.