Cleaver by Tim Parks The book I chose to read was Cleaver by Tim Parks. I was in the library looking for a fiction novel and this cover seemed very interesting to me. I took the book off the shelf and read the back. I saw it had a lot of good reviews, so I decided to give it a try. Tim Parks is the author of thirteen novels including Europa (1997) which was longlisted 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 wrote three stories about life in northern Italy. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard and in 1981 he moved to Verona where he 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 the Veneto. in Neighbors of Italy (1992) and An Italian Education (1996). He has translated works by several Italian writers, including Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi and Roberto Calasso. He has twice won the John Florio Prize for translation. Tim Parks' numerous essays and occasional short stories, mostly published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, are collected in Adultery 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 team Hellas Verona and a long essay on the joys of collective illusion. Judge Savage (2003), is the story of Crown Court judge Daniel Savage, who, even as he presides over the fate of others, witnesses his own life unraveling. In 2005, Tim Parks released Rapids. A Novel (2005); Medici Money (2005), a new story of the Medici family; and a new collection of short films, Talking About It (2005). His latest novel is Cleaver (2006). Cleaver's presidential moment has more of a fairy tale feel. «I'll tell you, sir.