num_pages: 288
description: Tim Parks and his wife, Rita, came to their flat on the aging, eccentric Via Colombare in Montecchio twelve years ago for a short stay. There was trouble from the moment they moved in--under cover of night--and it has gone delightfully up and down hill ever since. In this amusing and loving tribute to the glorious country he has embraced, British novelist Tim Parks shares his secrets of survival, tales of the unexpected, and treasured friendships with new-found friends and Italian neighbors.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
language: English
title: Italian Neighbors: Or, A Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona
titlecomplete: Italian Neighbors: Or, A Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona
genres: Italian Literature, Autobiography, Cultural, Travel, Italy, Humor, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2996
places: Verona
series: The Literary Agenda, Italy and Italians
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Somerset Maugham Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Wellcome Book Prize
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Ballantine Books