Amara Lakhous (5 Listed volumes)

Amara Lakhous

Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition)

2021, pp. 256, $ 18.00
Region: Algeria

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).
Amara Lakhous

The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea

2016, pp. 160, $ 16.00
Region: Italy

In an Italy of the future, colorful characters are portrayed in limpid but lively prose. Bittersweet, like any self-respecting Italian comedy, The Hoax is a Pirandellian exploration of identity in today's multicultural, polyglot societies.
Amara Lakhous

Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet

2014, pp. 160, $ 15.00
Region: Algeria

“Do we have an Italian Camus on our hands? Just possibly... No recent Italian novel so elegantly and directly confronts the ‘new Italy.’”—Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Amara Lakhous

Divorce Islamic Style

2012, pp. 192, $ 15.00
Region: Algeria

A literary commedia all'italiana about love and terrorism from the author of Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
Amara Lakhous

Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

2008, pp. 144, $ 14.95
Region: Algeria

A shrewd mix of social satire and murder mystery.