How does Italy really work? Tim Parks takes us behind the scenes -- and the results are surprising
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan. He is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, In Extremis, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still and Italian Ways. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the John Florio Prize and the Italo Calvino Prize.
'The best interpreter of Italian ways in Italy' * Sunday Herald
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'Parks is more than just an effortless raconteur: he offers
detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes
Italians so Italian' * The Times *
'All Italy is here, its history, its character, its flaws' * Sunday
Times *
Refreshingly brilliant... Parks skilfully shows how the rules and
the maneuverings within Italian university life mirrors those at
work in Italian society... illuminating and entertaining. When
Parks takes his reader behind the scenes and into a murky world of
favouritism and nepotism, back-scratching and back-stabbing,
collusion and exclusion, his narrative cracks up a gear and becomes
gripping * Herald *
A satisfyingly truthful, entertaining and provocative comedy that
lays bare Italy's difference, as a nation and as a joyful, warm,
ever changeable people, tractable by temperament, immovably
stubborn in its traditions -- Julian Evans * Daily Telegraph *
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