num_pages: 105
description: Tönle Bintarn's story takes place in the Veneto region, which once bordered the Austro-Hungarian Empire and where smuggling provided a means of subsistence to the peasants. Having run afoul of revenue agents, Tönle must seek refuge beyond the frontier in Central Europe, where year after year he survives by doing odd jobs and working as an itinerant print peddler, a horse trainer, and a gardener. When he is pardoned he returns home for good to find his children are grown and nothing remains for him but to tend his sheep, while around him Europe spins toward the catastrophe of the Great War--the conflict that will destroy Veneto's unique way of life.
language: English
title: The Story of Tönle
titlecomplete: The Story of Tönle
genres: Italy, Fiction
ratings_count: 200
places: Asiago Plateau
series: Trilogia dell'Altipiano
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Premio Campiello, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Premio Bagutta
publisher: The Marlboro Press/Northwestern University Press