Tristano Dies
  • Published: 15 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9780914671244
  • Imprint: Archipelago
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $40.00

Tristano Dies

A Life

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One of the later novels from a master of contemporary Italian fiction, Tristano Dies is a vibrant consideration of death, war, and the instability of the past, of memory, and of the act of storytelling.

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.
  • Published: 15 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9780914671244
  • Imprint: Archipelago
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943, where he still lives. His previous fiction includes Little Misunderstandings of No Importance and Indian Nocturne - now a film - which won the Prix Medici Etranger in 1987. Both of these titles are published by Vintage.

Tim Parks, the translator, lives in Italy and has won critical acclaim for his own writing.

Also by Antonio Tabucchi

Pereira Maintains
Little Misunderstandings of No Importance
Stories with Pictures
Message from the Shadows
For Isabel: A Mandala
Time Ages in a Hurry
Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico
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Praise for Tristano Dies

"Tristano muore is a dark meditation on the approach of death in what he portrays as the difficult, even humiliating context of Italian culture today. Sometimes bitter but also frequently lyrical, this latest book by Tabucchi is deeply skeptical about the power of art to console the pangs of our mortality. Nevertheless, Tristano muore is a powerfully engaging and beautifully written novel that may come in time to rank as one of this author's best." -- Charles Klopp, World Literature Today