Divorce Islamic Style (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609450663)

Secret identities, criminal conspiracies, and forbidden love converge in this "whimsical and at times heartbreaking look" at the Muslim communities of Rome (The New York Times).

The Italian secret service believes that a group of Muslim immigrants is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian translator who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover in Rome's Egyptian neighborhood, Viale Marconi, to infiltrate the group. Posing as a recently arrived Tunisian in search of a job and a place to sleep, Christian soon meets Sofia, a young Egyptian immigrant whose arranged marriage is anything but fulfilling. While Christian attempts in vain to uncover terrorist activity, Sofia is on another kind of secret mission--in defiance of a husband who forbids her to work.
In alternating voices, Algerian-born Italian author Amara Lakhous examines the commonplaces and stereotypes of life in modern, multicultural Italy. Divorce Islamic Style mixes the rational and the absurd as it depicts the conflicts and contradictions of today's globalized world.

Author: Amara Lakhous
ISBN-10: 1609450663
ISBN-13: 9781609450663
Publisher: Europa Editions
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2012
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 02/29/2012
Publishers Weekly 03/26/2012 pg. 52
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2012 pg. 674
Shelf Awareness 04/03/2012
New York Times Book Review 05/13/2012 pg. 31