num_pages: 272
description: In a stunning nonfiction debut, the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of Goodness and Family Planning celebrates ten years of living in a northern Italian neighborhood. This is a rare work that manages to be both a portrait and an invitation for everyone who has loved, longed for, or dreamed about southern Europe.
language: English
title: Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona
titlecomplete: Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona
genres: Cultural, Biography, Italy, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Autobiography, Travel, Biography Memoir, Italian Literature
ratings_count: 2997
places: Verona
series: Italy and Italians, The Literary Agenda
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: Grove Weidenfeld