Italian Ways - Tim Parks

Italian Ways

On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2014
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-958425-4 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians - conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants, this title captures what makes Italian life distinctive.
‘All Italy is here’ Sunday Times
From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona
Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award

In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country’s vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains.

Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians – conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants – Tim Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive. He explores how trains helped build Italy and how the railways reflect Italians’ sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond.

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, A Season with Verona 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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.6.2014
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 203 g
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Schienenfahrzeuge
Reisen Reiseberichte Europa
ISBN-10 0-09-958425-5 / 0099584255
ISBN-13 978-0-09-958425-4 / 9780099584254
Zustand Neuware
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