The Stronghold -- Dino Buzzati, Paperback Daniel Melnick Marcel stands up to the

Marcel stands up to the officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation

fantasy elements

the discovery of love -- all coalesce in this extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of José Saramago in brilliant form

but there is no one in the world who can say no to the future King of France

Bonus material explaining about the changing of the seasons

The Stronghold -- Dino Buzzati, Paperback Daniel Melnick Marcel stands up to theA 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 Stronghold, newly commissioned officer Giovanni Drogo has just received his first posting: to the remote Fortezza Bastiani. North of this stronghold are impassible mountains; to the south, a great desert; and