A Season With Verona

Fußball in Italien versetzt Parks immer wieder in Erstaunen. Also beschließt er, zu den Spielen von Hellas Verona zu reisen. Über den Fußball erfährt er weit mehr über das Land und seine Menschen als er sich vorgestellt hat.

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 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.