Seattle Times: "The murder in Amara Lakhous' wonderfully offbeat novel [...] is just an excuse to let Algiers-born Lakhous portray a vibrant, multiethnic neighborhood through the voices of characters being interviewed about the death."
Date: Oct 14 2008
What's new in crime fiction
The murder in Amara Lakhous' wonderfully offbeat "Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio" (Europa, 129 pp., $14.95 paper, translated by Ann Goldstein) is almost beside the point.
Someone killed the scourge of an apartment building in Rome's Piazza Vittorio. But the murder's just an excuse to let Algiers-born Lakhous portray a vibrant, multiethnic neighborhood through the voices of characters being interviewed about the death.
By Adam Woog
