Dino Buzzati

• Jun-1983
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• Aug-1984
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• Dec-2005
• / General Fiction
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Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. ...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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A New York Review Books Original

 There’s a certain street -- via Saterna -- in the middle of Milan that just doesn’t show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it’s there that one night he see...

• Dec-2009
• / Suspense
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In Catastrophe, the renowned Italian short story writer Dino Buzzati brings vividly to life the slow and quietly terrifying collapse of our known, everyday world. In stories touched by the fantastical and the strange, and filled with humor, irony,...

• Mar-2016
• / General Fiction
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A wonderful story for children and an allegory for adults about the absurdity of war, presented here with an introduction and guide to the text by Lemony Snicket.

Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search ...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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In CATASTROPHE, the renowned Italian short story writer Dino Buzzati brings vividly to life the slow and quietly terrifying collapse of our known, everyday world. In stories touched by the fantastical and the strange, and filled with humor, irony, an...

• Jul-2018
• / General Fiction
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• May-2023
• / Psychological Suspense
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Accomplished in his career but unaccomplished in love, a middle-aged architect is torn apart by his obsession with an enigmatic young woman in this delicately told story of desire and abjection by a titan of Italian literature.Antonio Dorigo is a suc...

• May-2023
• / Psychological Suspense
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A glory-starved soldier spends his life awaiting an absent, long-expected enemy in this influential Italian classic of existentialism, now newly translated and with its originally intended title restored.At the start of Dino Buzzati’s The Stronghol...

• May-2024
• / Science Fiction
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In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century Italian literature, a modest university professor becomes involved in a remote and enigmatic project in the middle of the Cold War.At the beginning of ...

• Oct-2024
• / Literary
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Poe and Kafka meet The Twilight Zone in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story.The modern Italian writer Dino Buzzati wrote a huge body...

• Oct-2024
• / Literary
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Poe and Kafka meet The Twilight Zone in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story.The modern Italian writer Dino Buzzati wrote a huge body...