Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal
Renowned Italophile Tim Parks offers an illuminating insight into his adopted country by way of a young student's not-so-sentimental education. Entertaining, enlightening and written with a palpable fondness tempered by exasperation.
Synopsis
'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The Times
How does Italy really work?
When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin her studies in a northern university town, she has little idea of the kind of education she will find there. Italian Life is her story, and that of the students and professors around her: a story of power and corruption, influence and exclusion, and the workings of a society where your connections are everything.
Written with flair and insight, Italian Life joins Tim Parks' bestselling books about his beloved and paradoxical adopted country. It is a gripping, entertaining, behind-the-scenes account of how Italy actually happens, and the ways it can surprise those who know it inside out.
'A satisfyingly truthful, entertaining and provocative comedy' Daily Telegraph
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9781529112580
- Number of pages: 368
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
- Weight: 258g
- Languages: English
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