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Italian Ways: On & Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

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Italian Ways: On & Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

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ISBN: 9780099584254
Title: Italian Ways: On & Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Author: PARKS TIM


'All Italy is here' Sunday Times


From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours


In Italian Ways, bestselling writer Tim Parks 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.

Format: Paperback
Price: $27.00

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Dimensions 198 × 129 mm