Destiny

Tim Parks

earliest edition we have, 1999 Arcade Publishing, 2001 paperback 256 pages

Christopher Burton, the protagonist of Tim Parks’s masterful new novel, is one of Britain’s foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton, while standing at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel in London’s Knightsbridge, receives a phone call informing him that his teenage son has commit...

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Destiny paperback · 2001 · Arcade Publishing · 256 pages · 9781559705752
Destiny ebook · 2001 · Arcade Publishing
Schicksal hardcover · 2001 · Verlag Antje Kunstmann · 281 pages
Destiny edition · 2000 · Arcade Pub. · 248 pages
Destiny edition · 1999 · Secker & Warburg · 248 pages

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