Bøger af Amara Lakhous

”Nej! Amedeo har intet med den forbrydelse at gøre. Jeg ved ikke hvem der har slået Lorenzo Manfredini ihjel. Jeg fandt ham stendød i elevatoren i en blodpøl. Folk på piazza Vittorio kunne ikke døje ham.” Eftersom Amedeo (hvis rigtige navn er Ahmed) har været forsvundet siden mordet, falder mistanken straks på ham. Men ejendommens beboere har hver sin ”sandhed” at fortælle, både kokken fra Iran, den napolitanske portnerske, den hollandske filmstuderende, den romerske barejer og alle de andre. Ja, selv den forsvundne Amedeo kommer til orde og kommenterer sine medbeboeres verdensopfattelse. En ganske anderledes bog set fra et multietnisk kvarter i Rom, piazza Vittorio, om romerne og det italienske samfund, bureaukratiet og opfindsomheden, de kulturelle fordomme, misforståelser og venskab.

'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

A fun and farcical novel, this new "e;whodunit"e; about life in multicultural Italy by Amara Lakhous will delight fans of Lakhous' earlier bestseller, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, and readers of novels such as The Yacoubian Buildingby Alaa Al Aswany.Bittersweet, like any self-respecting Italian comedy, The Prankis a Pirandellian exploration of identity in today's multicultural, polyglot societies. Lakhous draws inspiration from everyday reality, describing his approach to writing as "e;total literature,"e; a term he has adapted from soccer's "e;total football."e; He plays in attack, describing in this work the realities of an Italy of the future with colorful characters portrayed in limpid but lively prose.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Its 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 Lagan, 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 heavens 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 allitaliana as it probes the challenges and joys of life in a newly multicultural society.

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