title: Europa: A Novel
author: Tim Parks
description: <strong>Tim Parks</strong> is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the best-selling <em>Italian Neighbors</em> and <em>An Italian Education</em>. His novels include <em>Europa</em> which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His essays have appeared in the<em>The New Yorker</em> and the <em>New York Review of Books</em>, for which he blogs. Tim Park is also a renowned translator. He lives in Italy.
zlib_text: **Alexander Maksik**
  
   **YOU DESERVE NOTHING**
  
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  Europa Editions  
  214 West 19th St.  
  New York NY 10011  
  info@europaeditions.com  
  www.europaeditions.com  
    
  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real
  people, or real locales are used fictitiously.  
    
  Copyright © 2011 by Alexander Maksik  
  First publication 2011 by Europa Editions  
    
  An excerpt from this novel  
  was first published in _Narrative_ magazine  
    
  All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part
  in any form.  
    
  Cover Art by Emanuele Ragnisco  
  www.mekkanografici.com  
    
  Cover illustration by Marina Sagona  
    
  ISBN 978-1-60945-912-3 (US)  
  ISBN 978-1-60945-910-9 (World)
  
  For my parents.  
  And in memory of Tom Johnson.
  
  I do not want to choose between  
  the right and wrong sides of the world,  
  and I do not like a choice to be made.  
  
  —ALBERT CAMUS
  
  GILAD  
  24 YEARS OLD
  
  You live in one place. The next day you live somewher