Clash of civilizations over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio
By: Amara Lakhous ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Contributors: Goldstein, Ann.
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9781933372617
Subjects: Apartment houses -- Italy -- Rome -- Fiction; Minorities -- Italy -- Rome -- Fiction; Rome (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio.
Description: A small culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the centre of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neihgbours is murdered. An investigation ensues & as each of the victim's neighbours is questioned, the reader is offered an all-access pass into the most colourful neighbourhood in contemporary Rome.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.