Tim Parks and his (Italian) wife Rita come to live, after being in London and New York, in Montecchio in the Veneto. They are both translators and he has written several novels. Immediately on arrival they are catapulted into the lives of the people living in the same apartment house, and the complexities of Italian social life, a mix of conservatism and lawlessness, is fascinating and somewhat bewildering to an Englishman.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 10 August 2001 ) |
