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Hotel Milano

By: Tim Parks
Narrated by: Sean Baker
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From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa and The Hero's Way, a story set during the first days of lockdown in Europe, about the unexpected kindness of strangers and one man's emotional reckoning.

Milan, 2020. Drawn abruptly from his reclusive life in London for a friend's funeral, Frank finds himself in the eye of a pandemic he had barely registered on the news. From the relative comfort of his balcony at Hotel Milano, he surveys the train station across the piazza, seeing the mad dash for the last trains, hearing the sirens and watching the police stop people in the street. He feels himself remote from it all.

Then, one night, the sound of a child's footsteps leads him to discover a family sheltering secretly above him: a family who need his help. As the days pass, this reserved and difficult man begins to open himself to others. Faced with the task of saving a life, he must also take stock of his own.

©2023 Tim Parks (P)2023 Penguin Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction World Literature
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Having lived through Covid and Lock down all the memories came flooding back. Turning 70 in 2020 I endured a political driven nightmare. Living close to the beach in Sydney I was prevented from swimming as this was seen as a threat to my life. Social distancing, wearing masks and forced to sanitise my hands at every juncture proved futile, yet psychologically damaging. Tim Parks re-creation of the beginning of the nightmare in Italy is a reminder of what the political elite can enforce on its citizens
Better to die on ones feet. Sweden had a better model to follow. Well written.

Excellent, but not what I expected.

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