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Parks, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099572591 ISBN 13: 9780099572596

Publisher: Vintage, 2011

Synopsis

An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit, corruption, lust and tragedy in Tim Parks' mesmeric story of a man whose life will be shattered like the fatal fragment of stone that obsesses him.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099572591
• ISBN 13: 9780099572596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224