Italian Life - Tim Parks, Vintage
Italian Life - Tim Parks, Vintage Autor : Tim Parks, Popis : There is no world for whistle-blower in Italian, though you can absolutely chiudere un'occhio (turn a blind eye). From the bestselling…
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Italian Life - Tim Parks, Vintage
Autor : Tim Parks, Popis : There is no world for whistle-blower in Italian, though you can absolutely chiudere un'occhio (turn a blind eye). From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and Italian Ways, Italian Life is a particular reckoning with a beloved adopted country. In all areas of public life - community, education, employment - your connections are everything.
Valeria, a talented young woman from hot, dusty Basilicata, enrols together with thousands of others for a degree course that could take anything between three and ten years to complete, given the vagaries of the system. It takes place in a university in the north. She has sacrificed a great deal to get here.
However, as both Valeria and her rich supporting cast of students and professors will soon discover, there are dark and capricious forces at the institution's heart. Unfolding into a story of power and corruption, influence and exclusion, Tim Parks' compelling new book shows that an education is about understanding the workings of a society - in this case one where family, culture and innovation are shadowed by nepotism, bureaucracy and intrigue. Thought-provoking, surprising and always entertaining, Italian Life is a behind-the-scenes look at a paradoxical country: a gripping account of how Italy actually happens.Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : Italian Life, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet strán : 352
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