Travels around Italy in search of illusion, national character and goals.
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Utgitt:
2003
Forlag: Vintage
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 464
ISBN: 9780099422679
Format: 20 x 13 cm
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«Addictive reading...each chapter is a short story, the whole book an epic»
«Parks knows his football, and he knows Italy still better. His adopted country, in all its enduring and exasperating strengths and weaknesses, comes vividly to life»
«A fascinating emotional journey... His descriptions of Italian football are descriptions of Italy itself, its regional differences, its squabbles, its distinctive temper»
«An enthralling, insightful account of the real Italy»
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has
lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver and Teach Us to Sit Still.
He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures
on literary translation in Milan, writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and his
many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi and Machiavelli.