"British Fiction Italy." . . "Psychological fiction." . . . . "FICTION / Family Life" . . "Sohn Selbstmord Eltern Trennung Belletristische Darstellung." . . "Ehemann." . . "Fathers and sons Fiction." . . "Domestic fiction." . . "1999." . . "Ehefrau." . . "Suicide victims Fiction." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh" . . . . . . "This is a story of great pain, great passion, and, in the end, reconciliation and mourning. It is beautifully told.\"?Sunday Star-Ledger Christopher Burton, the protagonist of this masterful novel, is one of Britain's foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton receives a phone call at the reception desk of his hotel informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude that his marriage o."@en . . . "Authors' autographs (Provenance)"@en . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . . . . "Schicksal" . "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en . . . "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en . . "Peprōmeno : mythistorēma" . "\"Christopher Burton, the protagonist of this masterful novel, is one of Britain's foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton receives a phone call at the reception desk of his hotel informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude that his marriage of almost thirty years is over? And why is grief so slow in coming? Burton feels his pious, mercurial wife may have given him his life in Italy--even his prestigious career--but she has also made it impossible. Was their troubled son somehow the victim of their long, explosive love-hate relationship? Looking back, Burton sees in his life a web of contradictions, unanswered questions, and confusions. And yet, it has been his destiny\"--Page 4 of cover."@en . "Destiny a Novel"@en . . "Belletristische Darstellung" . . . . . "Destiny"@it . . . "Three months after returning to England, Christopher Burton, while standing at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge, receives the phone-call that informs him of his son's suicide. But why, on receiving this terrible news, does Christopher immediately decide that he must leave his wife? Why does he find it so difficult to grieve for his son? Was their son somehow a victim of their explosive love and hate? Or is that thought simply the expression of a deep paranoia?" . . . . . . . . . "Bestemming" . . "Christopher Burton, the protagonist of Tim Parks's masterful new novel, is one of Britain's foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton, while standing at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel in London's Knightsbridge, receives a phone call informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude that his marriage of almost thirty years is over? And why is grief so slow in coming? Burton feels his pious, mercurial wife may have given him his life in Italy -- even his prestigious career -- but she has also made it impossible. Was their troubled son somehow the victim of their long, explosive love-hate relationship? Looking back, Burton sees in his life a web of contradictions, unanswered questions, and confusions. And yet, it has been destiny. Intensely dramatic, dark, and yet often hilariously funny, Destiny is a seamless, beautifully plotted story and a profound meditation on marriage and identity, at once romantic and callous, brilliant and blind. In Destiny, Parks offers us a searing account of what it means to tread the narrow line between sanity and psychosis."@en . "Romans (teksten)" . . "L'histoire de Christopher Burton qui décide de quitter son épouse italienne après trente ans de mariage à l'annonce de la mort par suicide de leur fils. Comment trouver son chemin dans la complexité du monde hostile? Que vaut la réussite d'un ancien Premier ministre devant l'échec de sa propre vie? Une histoire en soixante-douze heures nourrie d'émotions et de situations tragi-comiques." . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . . . . "Destin" . . . "Domestic fiction"@en . . . "Domestic fiction" . "Schicksal : Roman" . . . . . . . . . . . "Psychological fiction"@en . . . "Psychological fiction" . "Destino" . . . . "The suicide of his teenage son causes British journalist Christopher Burton to examine his own life." . "Destino"@es . "Destino"@it . "Destiny" . "Destiny"@en . . . . . . . . "Italy" . . "Sohn." . . "Secker & Warburg," . . "Selbstmord." . . "Trennung." . .