Book description
Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his
ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political
convenience - it's time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Perhaps his
marriage is happy enough after all. Teenage children require a
father's attention. His career demands the most responsible behaviour.
Day by day Judge Savage presides over those whose double lives have
been exposed. He must be above suspicion.
But why does his daughter refuse to move to their spacious new
house? Why does a young Korean woman keep phoning him to beg for help?
As the most tangled lives are ironed out in court, Daniel Savage's own
existence descends into a mess of violence and confusion. English
society has fragmented into an incomprehensible public gallery where
every face conceals a different culture. And those with whom we have
the greatest intimacy are suddenly the most frighteningly mysterious.
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.
