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WINNER OF THE FLAIANO PRIZE ""Lithe and hilarious . . . short enough to be assimilated on a quiet evening, yet powerful enough to leave you with the sense that you could be doing more to understand the people around you."" --Off the Shelf ""The rich variety of characters and psychological understanding place Mr. Lakhous in the tradition of Balzac and Dickens.""--The Washington Times ""The author's real subject is the heave and crush of modern, polyglot Rome . . . the novel feels exclaimed rather than written.""--The New Yorker ""Wonderfully offbeat.""--The Seattle Times ""What's memorable about Lakhous' novel is what he shows us of an often inward-looking nation confronting the teeming vibrancy of multicultural life.""--NPR's Fresh Air ""This short but nearly flawless novel offers an intriguing and satisfying blend of crime and literary fiction.""--Booklist ""Intriguing psychological and social insight alongside a playful whodunit plot, exposing the power of fear, racial prejudice and cultural misconception to rob a neighborhood of its humanity.""--Publishers Weekly ""A satirical, enigmatic take in the racial tensions that afflict present-day Europe.""--Brooklyn Rail ""An Italian noir-comedy-satire, written by an Algerian, that effectively breaks rules and has a good time doing it."" --Shelf Awareness

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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 is the author of five novels, including Divorce Islamic Style (Europa, 2012) and Dispute over a Very Italian Piglet (Europa, 2014). Ann Goldstein's translations for Europa Editions include all of Elena Ferrante's books, including the New York Times best-selling My Brilliant Friend, named by the New York Times as the Best Book of the Century, and The Story of the Lost Child, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. She lives in New York.

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