Amara Lakhous Bücher

Mord an der Piazza Vittorio! Ein Verbrechen soll aufgeklärt werden, aber vor allem entfaltet sich zwischen den Marktständen und in den Treppenhäusern der Palazzi ein vielstimmiges Portrait des römischen Lebens.

Der italienische Geheimdienst erfährt von einer Gruppe muslimischer Einwanderer, die sich in Rom in der Gegend um die Via Marconi trifft und einen größeren terroristischen Anschlag plant. Als verdeckter Ermittler kommt Christian Mazzari ins Spiel, ein Sizilianer, der dann als vermeintlicher tunesischer Immigrant Issa in die Via Marconi zieht. Im Internetcafé Little Cairo begegnet er den jungen Männern des Viertels – und Safia, einer zarten Ägypterin, die ihn die islamische Kultur mit den Augen einer jungen Frau sehen lässt. Issa und Safia erzählen abwechselnd aus ihrem Leben und von der geheimen Sympathie, die sie verbindet. Wieder durchleuchtet Amara Lakhous die italienische Gesellschaft – ursprüngliche und zugezogene Einwohner – mit feiner Ironie und unbestechlichem Blick für die alltäglichen Missverständnisse. Währenddessen gehen Issas Ermittlungen voran, und auch die Anzeichen drohender Gefahr verdichten sich, bis zu einem überraschenden Ende, nach dem der Leser den Fall garantiert noch einmal von vorne aufrollt. Über den ersten Teil der Triologie, den Roman „Krach der Kulturen um einen Fahrstuhl an der Piazza Vittorio“ schrieb der Standard: » Dieses Buch fängt so leichthändig wie klug die Atmosphäre der Stadt am Tiber und das Denken ihrer Bewohner ein. «

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

'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 small culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the centre of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neihgbours is murdered. An investigation ensues & as each of the victim's neighbours is questioned, the reader is offered an all-access pass into the most colourful neighbourhood in contemporary Rome

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 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 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.

A fun and farcical novel, this new whodunit about life in multicultural Italy by Amara Lakhous wil delight fans of Lakhous' earlier bestseller, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, and readers of novels such as The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany. Bittersweet, like any self-respecting Italian comedy, The Hoax is a Pirandellian exploration of identity in today's multicultural, polyglot societies. Lakhous draws inspiration from everyday reality, describing his approach to writing as 'total literature, a term he has adapted from soccer's total football. 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

Somalia, Eritrea, Etiopia: da questi Paesi proviene la maggior parte delle persone che oggi salpano dalla Libia per cercare asilo in Italia. Sono spesso volti senza nome che si susseguono nei servizi dei telegiornali, capaci di suscitare pietà ma soprattutto paura. Il Centro Astalli ha voluto dar voce a questi uomini e queste donne, persone normali costrette loro malgrado a vivere esperienze straordinarie, a lasciare la loro casa, il loro Paese, la loro famiglia per ricominciare da zero in una terra straniera. Dieci di loro hanno avuto la forza e il coraggio di confidarci la propria storia, i viaggi disperati, le minacce e le torture subite. Ci hanno raccontato com’era la loro vita prima della fuga e cosa hanno trovato qui in Italia. Ciascuna testimonianza è accompagnata dall'introduzione di uno scrittore italiano (Lerner, Camilleri, Bianchi, De Luca, Arslan, Bellu, Albanese, Lakhous, Mazzucco, Celestini) in una sorta di dialogo a distanza che diventa simbolo di scambio e arricchimento reciproco.