Which answer matches this clue: the 1940 novel by Dino Buzzati about a young officer waiting for an attack that never comes at a remote desert fort?

• A A Private Affair
• B The Tartar Steppe ✓
• C The Sergeant in the Snow
• D The Watch

The Tartar Steppe is an existential allegory of waiting and the passage of time; it is regarded as Buzzati's masterpiece.