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Book Description: There's something miraculous about Mario Rigoni Stern's existence. For starters, there's the miracle of his very survival: this resolutely nonviolent man was forced by fate to fight in all the wars of his time, and yet emerged unharmed and uncorrupted from the French, Albanian, and Russian fronts and from the Nazi concentration camps. But it's just as miraculous that Rigoni is who he is that he's managed to remain so authentic and reserved in this era of suicidal urbanization and confused values. It's rare to find a more complete correspondence between the man and the writer; it's also rare to find pages as dense as these in The Story of T nle. This T nle is a stoical and obstinate character. Shepherd, miner, print peddler, smuggler, and (in his own way) socialist, he's a polyglot wanderer by destiny rather than by choice. If it were up to him, he would remain at home, in his house with the cherry tree on the roof.... T nle, that 'fierce defender of a rustic civilization,' holds fast to the rocks and roots. And his roots are here, on the splendid Asiago plateau, which is torn apart by every conflict.

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