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  • An Italian Education

    The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona

    de Tim Parks ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Italian Neighbors

    de Tim Parks ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Medici Money

    Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

    de Tim Parks ...
    The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent who presided over its precipitous decline). The Medici faced ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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

    On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    de Tim Parks ...
    The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life—by riding its trains.Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Europa

    de Tim Parks ...
    'Europa' is de koortsige, obsessieve monologue intérieur van Jerry Marlow, een leraar Engels in Italië die met een stel collega's en studenten op weg gaat naar Straatsburg om een petitie in te dienen. Hooggestemde idealen zijn niet aan de orde in deze veldtocht: de leraren vinden dat ze worden achtergesteld bij hun Italiaanse collega's. Eindelijk komt 'Europa' eens van pas. Jerry heeft geen ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Questa pazza fede

    Una stagione con l'Hellas Verona

    de Tim Parks, Daniele Rielli ...
    Stagione calcistica 2000-2001: è l’anno del Giubileo, è l’Italia della campagna elettorale che sancirà la seconda vittoria di Silvio Berlusconi, e la Serie A è il campionato più bello e più ricco del mondo, il più seguito e il più tifato. Uno scrittore e intellettuale nato a Manchester e trapiantato a Verona decide di abbandonarsi completamente alla sua passione per il tifo per l’Hellas Verona, e ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Goodness

    de Tim Parks ...
    The prize-winning author of Europa and Tongue of Flame "explores the nature of goodness and moral faith in this poignant, witty, and disturbing novel" ( Library Journal).George Crawley knows a thing or two about being good. After watching his missionary father die in Africa and his selfless mother get taken advantage of back in England, he knows that being good is for chumps. Looking out for ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Het heldenpad

    Te voet met Garibaldi van Rome naar Ravenna

    de Tim Parks ...
    Traducido por Corine Kisling ...
    Tijdens een zinderende zomer treedt Tim Parks samen met zijn partner Eleonora in de voetstappen van de revolutionaire generaal Garibaldi, die in de negentiende eeuw een guerrillaoorlog leidde voor een verenigd Italië. In Het heldenpad doet Parks – geliefde gids voor Italiaanse cultuur – in zijn kenmerkende humoristische stijl verslag van deze beroemde reis door de Apennijnen, op zoek naar het ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Prince

    de Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Traducido por Tim Parks ...
    **'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics**As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Shear (Parks, Tim)

    A Novel

    de Tim Parks ...
    A geologist turns sleuth in this "engrossing and beautifully written suspense novel" set in Greece by the author of the Booker Prize shortlisted Europa ( The New York Times).A New York Times Notable BookIn the hallucinatory light and heat of a Mediterranean island, London geologist Peter Nicholson arrives to inspect a granite quarry where a worker has died under suspicious circumstances. Hired to ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Leer ons stil te zitten

    een scepticus zoekt zin en gezondheid

    de Tim Parks ...
    Traducido por Lidy Pol ...
    Leer ons stil te zitten is het bijzonder onderhoudende verhaal van Tim Parks' zoektocht naar genezing. Wanneer Parks wordt gekweld door pijn die niemand lijkt te kunnen verklaren of verhelpen, wordt hij gedwongen een paar harde waarheden over de relatie tussen lichaam en geest, over onze hectische samenleving en over zijn schrijverschap onder ogen te zien. Na een vruchteloze gang langs de loketten ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Judge Savage

    A Novel

    de Tim Parks ...
    Already a highly successful lawyer, Daniel Savage has just been promoted to the position of Crown Court judge—though jealous colleagues whisper that his promotion might be due to the fact that he is black. He decides that it’s finally time to settle down, forswear philandering, and rededicate himself to his family. His teenage children require a father’s attention, and his career demands ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD