by Tim Parks · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781787302143
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«Italian Life» is Tim Parks's chronicle of contemporary Italy, published in 2020 by Penguin Random House in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Tim Parks has lived in Italy for decades and takes stock of his adopted country. He follows Valeria, a young woman from Basilicata who enrolls at a northern university, where talent coexists with bureaucracy, nepotism and influence. The result is a portrait of the power mechanisms that explain how Italian life works.
For readers of Tim Parks's Italian chronicles and for those seeking to understand the contradictions of Italian public life.
Timothy Harold Parks is a British novelist who has lived in Italy since 1981. He is also an author of nonfiction, a translator from Italian to English, and a professor of literature.
