TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tabucchi, Antonio.
AU  - Elizabeth Harris (tr.)
TI  - TRISTANO DIES: A Life
SN  - 9780914671244
U1  - F 
PY  - 2015////01/01
CY  - New York
PB  - Archipelago Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Italian Fiction
KW  - Mortality
KW  - Veterans
KW  - World War (1939-1945)
KW  - Italy
KW  - Death
KW  - Tabucchi, Antonio, 1943-2012
KW  - Italian writer
KW  - Elizabeth Harris
KW  - Elizabeth Harris Translater
N1  - 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
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