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Geburtstag
1970
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
Algeria
Wohnorte
Rome, Italy
Berufe
journalist

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Each of several residents of an apartment reveal themselves in statements to the police interspersed with journal entries about them by the primary suspect in a murder investigation. The immigrant experience to Rome of various Mediterranean people, where someone from Naples can be viewed as foreign.
 
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quondame | 25 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 10, 2024 |
This is an odd little book but one I really enjoyed. Europa Editions rarely steers me wrong.

The novella is a series of monologues from various residents and neighbors of a building in Rome, telling of their experiences and relationship with one character, Amedeo, who has disappeared after another resident is found murdered. The murder is not really the point; rather, Lakhous is painting a portrait of a multinational community, one in conflict with itself between Italians (and even they are not a unified lot) and immigrants. Sly humor is woven throughout the book, which helps to balance the more serious themes of racism, xenophonia, and Islamaphobia. As an Algerian-born writer now living in Italy, he knows of what he speaks.

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