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It's October 2006. In a few months Romania will join the European
Union. Meanwhile, the northern Italian town of Turin has been
rocked by a series of deadly crimes involving Albanians and
Romanians. Is this the latest eruption of a clan feud dating back
centuries, or is the trouble being incited by local organized crime
syndicates who routinely "infect" neighborhoods and then "cleanse"
them in order to earn big on property developments? Enzo Lagana,
born in Turin to Southern Italian parents, is a journalist with a
wry sense of humor who is determined to get to the bottom of this
crime wave. But before he can do so, he has to settle a thorny
issue concerning Gino, a small pig belonging to his Nigerian
neighbor, Joseph. Who brought the pig to the neighborhood mosque?
And for heaven's sake why?
This multiethnic mystery from the author of "Clash of
Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio "pays homage to
the cinematic tradition of the "commedia all'italiana" as it probes
the challenges and joys of life in a newly multicultural society.
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
In 2005, the Italian secret service receives intel that a group of
Muslim immigrants in Rome is planning a terrorist attack. Christian
Mazzari, a young Sicilian, goes undercover to infiltrate the group.
He soon meets Sofia, a young Egyptian immigrant who lives in the
neighborhood with her husband Said, an architect who has reinvented
himself in Italy as a pizza cook.
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