Book description
A brilliantly comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love
gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one
man's soul as he's trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day
coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the
woman who broke his heart. 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,
Teach Us to Sit Still
and The Server
. 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.
