Italian ways, on and off the rails from Milan to Palermo, Tim Parks
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Italian ways, on and off the rails from Milan to Palermo, Tim Parks
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Italian ways
Responsibility statement
Tim Parks
Sub title
on and off the rails from Milan to Palermo
Summary
This book brings us a fresh portrait of Italy today through a wry account of his train journeys around the country. Whether describing his daily commute from Milan to Verona, his regular trips to Florence and Rome, or his occasional sojourns to Naples and Sicily, Parks uses his thirty years of amusing and maddening experiences on Italian trains to reveal what he calls the 'charmingly irritating dystopian paradise' of Italy. Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians - conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants - Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive. Italian Ways also explores how trains helped build Italy and how the railways reflect Italians' sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond. Most of all, Italian Ways is an entertaining attempt to capture the essence of modern Italy
Target audience
adult
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On and off the rails from Milan to Palermo
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