Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo write by Tim Parks. This book was released on 2014-05-05. Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The bestselling author of "Italian Neighbors" returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life--by riding its trains.
Italian Ways
Italian Ways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian Ways write by Tim Parks. This book was released on 2013-06-06. Italian Ways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘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.
Italian Neighbors
Italian Neighbors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian Neighbors write by Tim Parks. This book was released on 2015-01-07. Italian Neighbors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
An Italian Education
An Italian Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Italian Education write by Tim Parks. This book was released on 2015-01-07. An Italian Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “marvelous” Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors (The Washington Post). Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian. When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara shout to her son, “Alberto, don’t sweat! No you can’t go in the sea till eleven, it’s still too cold, go and see your cousin in row three number fifty-two,” he was inspired to write about parenting in Italy—which he was doing himself at the time after adopting the country as his own. In this humorous memoir, Parks offers an enchanting portrait of Italian childhood that shifts from comedy to despair in the time it takes to sing a lullaby. The result is “a wry, thoughtful, and often hilarious book . . . a parable of how our children, no matter what, are other than ourselves” (The New Yorker). “Glimpses of Italy that are fond, critical, pithy and penetrating.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Season with Verona
A Season with Verona - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Season with Verona write by Tim Parks. This book was released on 2002. A Season with Verona available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After twenty years of living in Italy, Tim Parks, whom Joseph Brodsky has called "the best British author writing today," spent a full year following the fortunes--and misfortunes--of the Verona football--oops! soccer--club. Here is his rollicking report.
