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The Tartar Steppe

The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati Original title Il deserto dei Tartari (Italian, 1940)

The Tartar Steppe is a novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940.

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“What a terrible mistake, thought Drogo, perhaps everything is like that — we think there are beings like ourselves around us and instead there is nothing but ice and stones speaking a strange language; we are on the point of greeting a friend but our arm falls inert, the smile dies away because we are completely alone.”

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