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Tim Parks

Tim Parks’s acclaimed books about Italy include Italian Ways, Italian Neighbors, and An Italian Education. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He lives in Italy.

Tim Parks

Books by Tim Parks

Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Tim Parks
Paperback, 2006
“A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history.”—Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Tim Parks
Hardback, 2013
The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life—by riding its trains.
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Tim Parks
Paperback, 2014
“So inviting you might find yourself tempted to give the experience a whirl and ride the Italian trains yourself, book in hand.”—Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Tim Parks
E Book, 2013
“So inviting you might find yourself tempted to give the experience a whirl and ride the Italian trains yourself, book in hand.”—Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
Tim Parks
Hardback, 2021
The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present—following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines.
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
Tim Parks
E Book, 2021
The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present—following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines.
The Edge of the Horizon
Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks
Paperback, 2015
New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available...
The Edge of the Horizon
Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks
E Book, 2015
New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available...
Sweet Days of Discipline
Fleur Jaeggy, Tim Parks
E Book, 2019
On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover