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, 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 11/10/2015
ISBN: 9780914671244
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.70h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: New York Review of Books 06/04/2015 pg. 63
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 08/31/2015
Library Journal 09/15/2015 pg. 71
New York Times Book Review 12/13/2015 pg. 46