Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet
By Amara Lakhous and Ann Goldstein
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It’s October 2006. The northern Italian town of Turin has been rocked by a series of murders involving Albanians and Romanians, and journalist Enzo Laganà is determined to get to the bottom of the crime wave—even if he must invent a few sources to do so. But first he’s been conscripted to mediate the issue of a pig running loose in a mosque.
Gino the pig belongs to Enzo’s Nigerian immigrant neighbor, Joseph. The Muslim community wants Gino killed, an animal rights group wants him saved, and Joseph is pleading his pig’s innocence. As Enzo navigates various calamities large and small, he scrambles to keep track of his lies even as he uncovers some uncomfortable truths about contemporary, multicultural Italy.
“This very funny novel examines a town’s heightened ignorance and hostility toward foreigners, and what it means to be a “true” Italian, even if the native in question is a small pig.” —The New York Times
Amara Lakhous
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 Italy’s prestigious Flaiano prize, is his second novel. He currently resides in New York.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was enjoyable until it ended abruptly. I will not read this author's works again.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book was written at the gritty level of reality. The senses are piqued. But alas, it is a mafia book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Funny for the most part, but not his best. Abrupt ending.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I really like Lakhous' previous work. I liked this one right up until the last page...when it ended without finishing. The abrupt, unresolved termination just did not work for me.