Calm: Vintage Minis by Tim Parks (English) Paperback Book

Calm by Tim Parks

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Description How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. He recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tackles one of the great mysteries of our time - how to survive this modern age.

Publisher Description

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in betweenHow do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tackles one of the great mysteries of our time - how to survive in this modern age.Selected from the book Teach us to Sit Still by Tim ParksVINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series-Swimming by Roger DeakinMotherhood by Helen SimpsonWork by Joseph HellerLiberty by Virginia Woolf

Author Biography

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan.Parks is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still, Italian Ways and Italian Life. 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 Niccol Machiavelli.

Details ISBN 1784872598 ISBN-13 9781784872595 Title Calm Author Tim Parks Format Paperback Year 2017 Pages 112 Publisher Vintage Publishing GE_Item_ID:102513531; About Us

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