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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.
Italian Neighbors
by Tim Parks
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ISBN-13:
9780802191151
- Publisher: Grove Atlantic
- Publication date: 01/07/2015
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 280
- Sales rank: 150,627
- File size: 671 KB
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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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