Tristano Dies A Life Author:Antonio Tabucchi 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 T... more »abucchi?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.« less