From the bestselling Booker-shortlisted writer of Italian Ways and Europa a classic novel
about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from home Frank's reclusive existence
in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan for the funeral of an old
friend. Preoccupied by this sudden intrusion of his past he flies oblivious into the
epicentre of a crisis he has barely registered on the news. It is spring his luxury hotel
offers every imaginable comfort perhaps he will be able to weather the situation and return
home unscathed? What Frank doesn't know is that he's about to make a discovery that will change
his heart and his mind. The arresting new novel from Booker Prize-shortlisted Tim Parks Hotel
Milano is a universal story from a unique moment in recent history: a book about the kindness
of strangers and about a complicated man who faced with the possibility of saving a life
must also take stock of his own. Praise for In Extremis:'Parks's prose brings us closer to the
pressures and rhythms of a lived life than the work of any other contemporary writer I can
think of' Mike McCormack New Statesman Books of the Year 'Head and shoulders above so many of
the books turned out by similar writers... A wonderfully written novel' Kirsty Gunn Guardian
'Tim Parks is a hugely talented writer' Sunday Times
