Book description
Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or
relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the
mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer.
Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and
improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health.
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at
Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever
since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including
Europa,
Cleaver
,
A Season with Verona
and
Teach Us to Sit Still
. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys
awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on
literary translation in Milan, writes for publications such as the
New Yorker
and the
New York Review of Books
, and his many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia,
Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi and Machiavelli.
