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Dispute Over A Very Italian Piglet

Dispute Over A Very Italian Piglet

by Amara Lakhous
Paperback
Age range: 18+ years old Publication Date: 17/04/2014

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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 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 lightheartedly probes the challenges and joys of life in a newly multicultural society.
ISBN:
9781609451882
9781609451882
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Age range:
18+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-04-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Europa Editions
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
210x135x13mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Amara Lakhous

Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio won Italy's prestigious Flaiano Prize and prompted the critic Carlin Romano to ask in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Do we have an Italian Alberto Camus on our hands?."

Lakhous is also the author of Divorce Islamic Style and Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet.

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