Books by Amara Lakhous

'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.