Tim Parks

Italian Neighbors (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy. Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona. So after ten years of living with his Italian wife, Rita, in a typical provincial Italian neighborhood, the novelist found that he had inadvertently collected a gallery full of splendid characters. In this wittily observed account, Parks introduces readers to his home town, 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. Via Colombare, the village's main street, offers an exemplary hodgepodge of all that is new and old in the bel paese, a point of collision between invading suburbia and diehard peasant tradition. It is a world of creeping vines, stuccoed walls, shotguns, security cameras, hypochondria, and expensive sports cars. More than a mere travelogue, Italian Neighbors is a vivid portrait of the real Italy and a compelling story of how even the most foreign people and places gradually assume the familiarity of home. "One of the most delightful travelogues imaginable...so vivid, so packed with delectable details." - Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780802191151
• Artikelnr.: 42541092

Autorenporträt

Tim Parks is the author of eighteen works of fiction and nonfiction, including Europa, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, Destiny, Rapids, and, most recently, Cleaver, Italian Neighbors, and A Season with Verona . He is the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.