Border Outpost

Its English title is mistranslated as The Tartar Steppe instead of The Desert of the Tartars. Yevgenia encountered II deserto when she was thirteen, in her parentsБЂ™ weekend country house in a small village two hundred kilometers outside Paris, where their Russian and French books multiplied without the constraints of the overfed Parisian apartment. She was so bored in the country that she could not even read. Then, one afternoon, she opened the book and was sucked into it. Inebriated by Hope Giovanni Drogo is a man of promise. He has just graduated from the military academy with the rank of junior officer, and active life is just starting. But things do not turn out as planned: his initial four-year assignment is a remote outpost, the Bastiani fortress, protecting the nation from the Tartars likely to invade from the border desertБЂ”not too desirable a position. The fortress is located a few days by horseback from the town; there is nothing but bareness around itБЂ”none of the social buzz that a man of his age could look forward to ...»