Expatriate writer Tim Parks brings to bear his considerable expertise in all things Italian on this in-depth look at Florence in the Renaissance that focuses on the dichotomy between the spirit of enterprise that resulted in the flowering of the arts, and the Christian belief that wealth and prosperity lead on a direct path to perdition. Parks ...
Novelist and translator Tim Parks describes the rearing of his children in northern Italy, where he has lived with his Italian wife for the last 15 years.
Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities, and to get a fresh take on the conundrum that is national character. From Udine to Catania, from the San Siro to the Olimpico, travelling with the fans and the players, this is a highly ...
How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In this irresistible sequel to his bestselling Italian Neighbours, Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at ...
In this comic literary thriller, titled CARA MASSIMINA in its original British publication, Tim Parks introduces the amoral Morris Duckworth, a killer who tries to better himself by whatever means necessary, in this case by kidnapping an heiress named Mimi Trevesan. Like Duckworth, Parks worked as a teacher of English in Verona.
Combining aspects of travel, sports, and memoir writing, expatriate American writer Tim Parks tracks every bus ride, fan riot, shin slide, and goal of his beloved Verona soccer club in the course of their first season competing in Series A--the premier Italian league.
A comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he is trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart.
In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife, Rita, in Verona, Italy. More than a travel book, Italian ...
When famous foreign correspondent Christopher Burton hears that his son has committed suicide, his reaction to the news is not the usual one. Instead of grief or bewilderment, he feels little except a determination to divorce his wife. Tim Parks's comic, disturbing novel is about the confusing and contradictory web of emotions that can rule a ...
'Suddenly alone, you see the river's horizon come to meet you. There's a certain glassiness to it and as the roar of the rapid swells the water grows more compact, it pulls more earnestly. Above and around, the mountains are quite still. Already you are past the point of no return. You must choose your line.' In the dramatic landscape of the ...
Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living in Italy with this account of the delights and foibles of Italian life. With an Italian wife and family, he is able to introduce the reader to a gallery of characters. Tim Parks won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Award for "Tongues of Flame" and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for "Loving ...
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A sequel to "Cara Massimina". Morris can't get over the Italian girl who eloped with him two years ago, but perhaps the dear, dead Mimi can't get over him either. Living in Verona and married to her sister, he hears Mimi's voice and sees her endlessly reincarnated face in Renaissance madonnas.
Novelist Tim Parks presents a collection of his book reviews, many initially published in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere. Reflections on the work of Christina Stead, W. G. Sebald, Dante, Eugenio Montale, and others are included.
Collected here for the first time the best from Tim Parks's short fiction, spanning across his entire literary career and enriched by new stories written specifically for this publication. The title story of the collection, Talking about It, presents two friends, George and Michael, meeting ritually in a pub every night after a game of squash. ...
One of the few works written in Casanova's native Italian, The Duel is an important example of the infamous lothario's vivid prose and inimitable style. Having escaped from the infamous Piombi Prison in Venice, Casanova became an exile, travelling through Western Europe and being given shelter on account of his fame. The story recounts the duel he ...
Julia has left home. She has gone to Italy. She has left her lover, her job, her flat, the closely knit group of friends who meant so much to her. Why? And the motley group of ex-pats she finds in Verona, the Oxbridge brigade, the revolutionary Scot, the cool Canadian, the feminist Flossy - what are they doing here. Why do they find it so ...
Antonio Tabucchi describes his novella Indian Nocturne (winner of the Medicis Prize in its French translation) as 'an insomnia' but 'also a journey... in which a Shadow is sought.' In his provocatively elusive but totally compelling way, Tabucchi takes us along on a nightmarish trip through the Indian subcontinent, producing sensations by turns ...
On a Mediterranean island, an English geologist is to inspect a quarry on behalf of an Australian client. He has brought along his mistress and pushed his wife and family to the back of his mind. But he reckons without the arrival of a woman with a death to avenge. By the author of "Goodness".
Daniel Savage is a black judge in England who feels hypocritical judging some of his cases when he himself has been guilty of various domestic abuses, including adultery and brutality toward his wife. One of his former lovers, a Korean woman, comes back into his life and, when he visits her, he is viciously beaten by her family, ending up in a ...
About essay-writing, Tim Parks says on his web site: "I became terribly excited by the way, over a distance of maybe ten to fifteen pages, you could make intellectual reflection, quotation, and a good story fizz together to generate an entirely different kind of excitement than that produced by story or essay alone." The title essay in this ...
Influenced by the rise of the science of psychology and the turmoil of the early twentieth century, A Perfect Hoax is an ironic and affectionate story of illusion, self-deception and impracticality in a practical world. Mario Samigli is in his seventies; he has all but given up his cherished aspirations as a writer and smiles at the world through ...
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