Cleaver by Tim ParksThe book I chose to read was Cleaver by Tim Parks. I was at the library looking for a fiction novel and this cover seemed very interesting. I took the book from the shelf and read the back. I saw that it had a lot of good reviews, so I decided to try it. Tim Parks is the author of thirteen novels, including Europa (1997) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Destiny (1999), Judge Savage (2003) and Rapids (2005). ). His most recent novel is Cleaver (2006) and his most recent publication The Fighter, a collection of literary essays. He has written three non-fiction stories about life in northern Italy. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard and in 1981 he moved to Verona where he still lives with his Italian wife and three children. Tim Parks was born in Manchester, England, in 1954. He teaches literary translation at IULM University in Milan and has written about local life in Veneto. in Italian Neighbors (1992) and An Italian Education (1996). He translated the works of several Italian writers, including Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi and Roberto Calasso. He has twice won the John Florio Prize for translation. Many of Tim Parks' essays and occasional stories, most published in the NewYorker and the New York Review of Books, are collected in Adultry and OtherDiversions (1998) and Hell and Back: Essays (2001). ). A Season with Verona (2002), is the story of a season spent following the Italian football club Hellas Verona and a long essay on the joys of collective illusion. Judge Savage (2003) tells the story of Crown Court Judge Daniel Savage, who, even as he presides over the fate of others, witnesses the collapse of his own life. In 2005, Tim Parks published Rapids. A Novel (2005); Medici Money (2005), a new history of the Medici family; and a new collection of short fiction, Talking About It (2005). His latest novel is Cleaver (2006). Cleaver's presidential moment seems more like a fairy tale. “I put it to you, M..