Hotel Milano

<p>Born in Manchester <b>Tim Parks</b> grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan.<br><br>Parks is the acclaimed author of novels non-fiction and essays including <i>Europa</i> <i>A Season with Verona</i> <i>Teach Us to Sit Still</i><i> Italian Ways </i>and <i>Italian Life. </i>He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has won many awards for both his work in English and his translations from the Italian which include works by Alberto Moravia Italo Calvino Roberto Calasso Antonio Tabucchi and Niccolò Machiavelli.</p> <i>Hotel Milano</i> is <b>one of Tim Parks' most engaging and satisfying books</b> Tim Parks a long-time resident in Italy is an accomplished writer of both fiction and non-fiction and this <b>deft and affecting</b> short novel combines his skills A <b>compelling </b>mix of emotional introspection and pressing drama <b>Excellent and quietly devastating...</b> While recent pandemic novels such as Sarah Hall's <i>Burntcoat</i> and Sarah Moss's <i>The Fell</i> gave us the claustrophobia and forced intimacy of the pandemic <i>Hotel Milano </i>comes closest to evoking what it was really like to watch the world be redrawn in real time <b>Parks writes with an appealing wry elegance </b>and his quirky erudite narrator finally finds solace not so much in the grand themes of European culture as in a shredded balloon stuck in a tree or the yellow beak of a blackbird <p><b>From the bestselling Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from home</b><br><br>Frank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan for the funeral of an old friend. Preoccupied by this sudden intrusion of his past he flies oblivious into the epicentre of a crisis he has barely registered on the news.<br><br>It is spring his luxury hotel offers every imaginable comfort; perhaps he will be able to weather the situation and return home unscathed? What Frank doesn't know is that he's about to make a discovery that will change his heart and his mind.<br><br><i>Hotel Milano</i> is a universal story from a unique moment in recent history: a book about the kindness of strangers and about a complicated man who faced with the possibility of saving a life must also take stock of his own.</p> <p><b>From the bestselling Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from home</b><br><br>Frank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan for the funeral of an old friend. Preoccupied by this sudden intrusion of his past he flies oblivious into the epicentre of a crisis he has barely registered on the news.<br><br>It is spring his luxury hotel offers every imaginable comfort; perhaps he will be able to weather the situation and return home unscathed? What Frank doesn't know is that he's about to make a discovery that will change his heart and his mind.<br><br><i>Hotel Milano</i> is a universal story from a unique moment in recent history: a book about the kindness of strangers and about a complicated man who faced with the possibility of saving a life must also take stock of his own.</p>