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Europa
by: Tim Parks

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780099268093
ISBN: 0099268094
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 01, 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 147657

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Editorial Review:

Synopsis:
A comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he is trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart.

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- Well-written musings on the new Europe
Jerry Marlow narrates his thoughts and happenings during a bus journey to Strasbourg by Milan-based foreign lecturers and supporting students to air grievances in the European parliament. Marlow is having a bitter, mid-life crisis after marriage
break-up; difficulties with his teenage daughter, and a further break-up with a female student - who is also on the bus-trip.. The undoubted strength of this work is Tim Parks' prose: extremely long sentences set down the cerebral Marlow's jostling and competing thoughts in a challenging, yet highly readable, 'stream of consciousness' narrative.

Aside from Marlow himself, there are a number of other well-drawn and intriguing characters, most notably the trip-organiser, Indian-Welshman ... Read More:

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- Not easy reading at first but well worth it
As a fellow Englishman in Italy I absoloutely devoured 'Italian Neighbours' and An Italian Education' which seemed to be written just for me! Europa is my first T Parks novel however and although I found the style a little hard going at the beginning, I was soon taken in by its compulsive narrative style and the intricacy of the characters. The "train of thought" style is at once 'heavy' yet logical. Great stuff .. looking forward to 'Destiny' and who knows whether I shall bump into the man himself one day in our adopted nation!

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- Excellent book, a must read
Parks does an awesome job of digging deep into his characters and showing the reader their real thoughts. He dispells the idea of a United Europe and deals with complex issues that most wouldn't like to face. All of this is presented in a unique and interesting fashion with the main character's constant self-evaluation.

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- Thought provoking, erudite book.
It takes a while to get used to the writing style but once tuned in to it's slow pace, the book is a pleasure to read. Guaranteed to convince you that a united Europe is a hopeless dream when the heart and mind remain such opaque, inexplicable things. Read it!

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- Brilliant. The fallacies behind the EU stripped bare.
Using mixed nationalities and tortured personal relationships the Author explodes the myth of a United Europe. Only the second book I've read in fifty years that immediately convinced me it will become a classic. A MUST for English abroad.

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