Book description
The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism. . . what might such concepts
mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen,
adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic
movement and find a devil in his brother.
Winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards.
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.
