“Morte in mostra”

James Bradburne, General Director of the Pinacoteca Brera and of the Braidense National Library and Cristina Acidini, President of the Florence Academy of Arts Design, present the volume: “Morte in Mostra” by Tim Parks.

James Bradburne, General Director of the Pinacoteca Brera and the Braidense National Library
and
Cristina Acidini, President of the Florence Academy of Arts Design,

in dialogue with
TIM PARKS
in occasion of the release of his new novel
“MORTE IN MOSTRA”

Moderator
Stefano Salis

Bompiani, from September 15th in bookstore.

Morte in Mostra (original title Painting Death) is the sequel to Cara Massimina and Mimi’s Ghost. Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family he has long left aside the paperweight and the pillow to become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it’s not enough. Never satisfied with being anything short of the best, he comes up with a plan to put on the most exciting art exhibition of the decade, based on a subject close to his heart: killing. All the great slaughters of scripture and classical times will be on show, from Cain and Abel, to Brutus and Caesar. But as Morris meet stiff resistance from the Neapolitan director of Verona’s Castelvecchio museum, everything starts to unravel around him. His children are rebelling, his mistress is asking for more than he wants to give, his wife is increasingly attached to her ageing confessor, Don Lorenzo, and worst of all it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the ghosts that swirl around him, and the skeletons rattling in every cupboard. The shame of it is that Morris Arthur Duckworth really did not want to have to kill again.

Tim Parks, was born in Manchester in 1954, is a British novelist and journalist, and professor at the IULM University in Milan. Tim has translated works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi and Roberto Calasso. He has written many novels and essays including “Europa”, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997. Bompiani has published, among others, “Cara Massimina”, “Il sesso è vietato” e “Il fantasma di Mimì”. He collaborates with many italian, english and american newspaper. Many of his articles and novels are published in the “New Yorker” and “The Guardian”.

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