An inspiring and entertaining true story of a sceptic's journey into the world of meditation and alternative health.
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver, A Season with Verona and Teach Us to Sit Still. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and his many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi and Machiavelli.
His journey will open your mind to the possibilities of
mindfulness
*Sunday Telegraph*
Teach us to Sit Still made me laugh; it made me cry; and it made me
seriously think about taking up Vispassana meditation
*The Times*
A searingly honest, viscerally vivid, darkly comic self-examination
of the connections between writing personality and health. Once I
started reading it, I didn't want to stop
*Guardian*
This is a crazy, wince-inducing, uplifting book... Parks has done a
service to the many people who would never look at a cheesy
self-help book or try anything with a whiff of spirituality about
it
*Financial Times*
A movingly honest book that is about a great deal more than
breathing and meditation
*The Lady*
Funny, painful and quietly profound book
*Scotsman*
Parks writes wonderfully well about his body as he is reluctantly
reconciled to its existence alongside his mind... All the more
moving for avoiding new age fakery. Anyone plagued by chronic aches
and pains will find much to cheer them in this most unusual and
engaging book
*Express*
Parks is an excellent writer, capable of writing wittily and with
great beauty about the near indefinable
*Seven, Sunday Telegraph*
Beautifully written and painfully honest...a fascinating,
perceptive and rewarding read
*The Big Issue*
[Parks] writes with forensic precision about all he experiences,
physically and mentally... Even those free of illness will find
Parks's journey gives us much to ponder about the effects of modern
living
*Metro*
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