Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo - Hardcover

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Parks, Tim

 
9781846557743: Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1846557747 ISBN 13: 9781846557743
Verlag: Harvill Secker, 2013

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A journey around Italy by train, full of humorous and insightful observations on what the railways and their travellers reveal about the country

In Italian Ways, bestselling writer Tim Parks brings us a fresh portrait of Italy today through a wry account of his train journeys around the country. Whether describing his daily commute from Milan to Verona, his regular trips to Florence and Rome, or his occasional sojourns to Naples and Sicily, Parks uses his thirty years of amusing and maddening experiences on Italian trains to reveal what he calls the ‘charmingly irritating dystopian paradise’ of Italy.

Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians – conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants – Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive. Italian Ways also explores how trains helped build Italy and how the railways reflect Italians’ sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond. Most of all, Italian Ways is an entertaining attempt to capture the essence of modern Italy.

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Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan.

Parks is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still, Italian Ways and Italian Life. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has won many awards for both his work in English and his translations from the Italian, which include works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Antonio Tabucchi and Niccolò Machiavelli.

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Verlag
Harvill Secker
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1846557747
ISBN 13 
9781846557743
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288
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