Young Giovanni Drogo arrives at the bleak border area of the Tartar Steppe where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, an encampment 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. Despite, or because of, the fact that they tell him he is perfectly free to leave, he waits for one great and glorious endeavour.
Internationally acclaimed since its publication in 1945, The Tartar Steppe is a provocative and frightening tale of hope, longing and the terrible sorcery of the magnificent gesture.
- ISBN10 1841959286
- ISBN13 9781841959283
- Publish Date 5 April 2007 (first published 11 October 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English