Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition): Bilingual Edition

Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition): Bilingual Edition - Paperback

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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition): Bilingual Edition
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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition): Bilingual Edition - Paperback

Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition): Bilingual Edition - Paperback

by Amara Lakhous
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Book Overview

The immigrant tenants of a building in Rome offer skewed accounts of a murder in this prize-winning satire by the Algerian-born Italian author (Publishers Weekly).

Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglot community of immigrants who have come to Rome from all over the world. But when a tenant is murdered in the building's elevator, the delicate balance is thrown into disarray. As each of the victim's neighbors is questioned by the police, readers are offered an all-access pass into the most colorful neighborhood in contemporary Rome.
With language as colorful as the neighborhood it describes, each character takes his or her turn "giving evidence." Their various stories reveal much about the drama of racial identity and the anxieties of a life spent on society's margins, but also bring to life the hilarious imbroglios of this melting pot Italian culture.

"Their frequently wild testimony teases out intriguing psychological and social insight alongside a playful whodunit plot."--Publishers Weekly
ISBN9781609457228
Author Amara Lakhous
PublisherEuropa Editions
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Amara Lakhous

Amara Lakhous was born in Algeria in 1970 and lived in Italy for eighteen years before moving to the United States in 2014. A bilingual novelist in Arabic and Italian, he is the author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, a bestseller translated into ten languages and adapted into a film in 2010. He is currently a professor in the practice in the Department of Italian Studies at Yale University.

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