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Destiny
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Three months after returning to England, Christopher Burton, receives a phone-call at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge that informs him of his son’s suicide. But why on receiving this terrible news, does Burton immediately decide that he must leave his Italian wife of thirty years standing? Why does he find it so difficult to focus on his grief for his son? Intensely dramatic, dark and, against all odds, hilariously funny, Destiny is a satisfying story and a profound meditation on marriage and identity. Parks gives us a frightening experience of what it means to tread the narrow line between sanity and psychosis.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.181 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Pages | 256 |
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| Year Published | 2000-7-6 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099284944 |
| About The Author | 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. |
This brilliant work fizzes with bleak humour and a crackpot energy… a powerfully affecting novel of married life and cultural incompatability… Parks is an exceptionally acute observer of modern life |
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| Other text | Tim Parks masterly new novel is… intellectually sophisticated, formally ambitious, and belongs to a cosmopolitan European tradition. But it is one that pays honour to the heart as well as to the mind |
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