Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet

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October 2006. In a few months Romania will join the European Union. Meanwhile, the 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 Enzo Lagana, born in Turin to Southern Italian parents, is a journalist with a wry sense of humour who is determined to get to the bottom of this crime wave. But before he can, he has to settle the issue of Gino, a pig belonging to his neighbour.

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Do we have an Italian Camus on our hands Just possibly... No recent Italian novel so elegantly and directly confronts the new Italy.

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Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in cultural anthropology from the University la Sapienza, Rome. He recently completed a Ph.D. thesis entitled Living Islam as a Minority. His first novel,Le cimici e il pirata(Bedbugs and the Pirate), was published in 1999.Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, winner of Italys prestigious Flaiano prize, is his second novel. He currently resides in New York. Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena Ferrantes oeuvre, she has also brought to Anglo-Saxon readers novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary Italian writers.