Clash of Civilisations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio tells
the story of the immigrant tenants of a building in Rome, who offer
skewed accounts of a murder. In this award-winning satire by the
Algerian-born Italian author Amara Lakhous, each character takes
his or her turn centre-stage, "giving evidence," recounting his or
her story the dramas of emigration, the daily equivocations of
immigration, the fears and misunderstandings of a life spent on
society's margins, abused by mainstream culture's fears and
indifference, preconceptions and insensitivity. What emerges is a
touching story that is common to us all, whether we live in Rome,
London or in Los Angeles. "The author's real subject is the heave
and crush of modern, polyglot Rome, and he renders the jabs of
everyday speech with such precision that the novel feels exclaimed
rather than written." THE NEW YORKER
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