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Tim Parks

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Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since, raising a family of three children. He has written fourteen novels including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize), Destiny, Cleaver, and most recently In Extremis.
During the nineties he wrote two, personal and highly popular accounts of his life in northern Italy, Italian Neighbours and An Italian Education. These were complemented in 2002 by A Season with Verona, a grand overview of Italian life as seen through the passion of football. Other non-fiction works include a history of the Medici bank in 15th century Florence, Medici Money and a memoir on health, illness and meditation, Teach ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 40,064 ratings · 4,456 reviews · 115 distinct works • Similar authors

	Italian Neighbors 3.71 avg rating — 3,069 ratings — published 1985 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character . . . and Goals! 4.18 avg rating — 2,147 ratings — published 2002 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo 3.73 avg rating — 2,273 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing 3.65 avg rating — 1,691 ratings — published 2010 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Italian Education 3.86 avg rating — 1,590 ratings — published 1995 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence 3.62 avg rating — 1,302 ratings — published 2006 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books 3.60 avg rating — 983 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Europa 3.35 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 1997 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kader by Tim Parks (Goodreads Author), Roza Hakmen (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 2001 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna 3.70 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 2021 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.”
― Tim Parks

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“Life is simply too short for the wrong books, or even the right books at the wrong time.”
― Tim Parks, Stop What You're Doing and Read This!

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“But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.”
― Tim Parks

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Eylül 2021 - Modern Klasik Okuması
Eylül ayında aşağıdaki kitaplardan hangisini grupla birlikte okumak istersiniz?

Houston, Houston Duyuyor Musun? - James Tiptree Jr. 1976, 88 sayfa

23 votes 34.3%

Kadın Yok Savaşın Yüzünde - Svetlana Alexievich 1983, 404 sayfa

16 votes 23.9%

Kadınlar Ülkesi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1915, 216 sayfa

15 votes 22.4%

Europa - Tim Parks 1997, 304 sayfa

13 votes 19.4%

67 total votes

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