Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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."