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Author:
Lakhous, Amara, 1970-
Title:
Divorce Islamic style / Amara Lakhous ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Publisher:
Europa Editions,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
184 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Muslims--Fiction.
Muslims--Rome--Rome--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Rome (Italy)--Fiction.
Other Authors:
Goldstein, Ann.
Other Titles:
Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi. English
Notes:
Original title: Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi.
Summary:
"The Italian secret service has received intel that a group of Muslim immigrants based in Rome's Viale Marconi neighborhood is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian court translator who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover to infiltrate the group and to learn who its leaders are. Christian poses as Issa, a recently arrived Tunisian in search of a place to sleep and a job. He soon meets Sofia, a young Egyptian immigrant whose life with her husband Said, a.k.a. Felice, an architect who has reinvented himself as a pizza cook, is anything but fulfilling"--P. [2] of cover.
ISBN:
1609450663
9781609450663
OCLC:
(OCoLC)744291818
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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