Calm

Tim Parks

ISBN 10: 1784872598 / ISBN 13: 9781784872595

Published by Random House UK Ltd Jun 2017, 2017

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Neuware -How 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 97 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Calm
• Publisher: Random House UK Ltd Jun 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784872598
• ISBN 13: 9781784872595
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 177W x 113H x 10D millimeters 177 millimeters width by 113 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 70 grams

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Calm

About the Author

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan. He is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, In Extremis, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still and Italian Ways. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the John Florio Prize and the Italo Calvino Prize.