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Divorce Islamic Style Paperback – March 27, 2012

by Amara Lakhous (Author), Ann Goldstein (Translator)

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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.

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"The author's real subject is the heave and crush of modern, polyglot Rome, and he renders the jabs of everyday speech with such precision that the novel feels exclaimed rather than written."
—The New Yorker

"A satirical, enigmatic take on the racial tensions that afflict present-day Europe."
—Brooklyn Rail

"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

"Do we have an Italian Camus on our hands? Just possibly...No recent Italian novel so elegantly and directly confronts the 'new Italy.'"
—Philadelphia Inquirer

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"French and British literatures have long been enriched by the biculturalism of authors like Tahar Ben Jelloun, Amin Maalouf, Gaitam Malkani, and Monica Ali. With talented new writers like Lakhous, Italy is closing the gap."
—The New York Times

"As a novelist of culture clash, Lakhous has the faculty to maintain colorful voices with the luxury of introducing political themes as instantiations of character."
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About the Author

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. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Europa Editions, 2008) was awarded Italy's prestigious Flaiano prize and was described by the Seattle Times as a "wonderfully offbeat novel." Lakhous lives in Italy.

Ann Goldstein is an editor and head of the copy department at The New Yorker. Her translations for Europa Editions include novels by Elena Ferrante, Alessandro Piperno, Romano Bilenchi, and Giancarlo de Cataldo.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Europa Editions; Original edition (March 27, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1609450663
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1609450663
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.55 x 8.3 inches

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Robert J. Piro

delighitful and informative on Muslim values and practices

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2012

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A muslim man is allowed to divorce a wife by uttering a word 3 times, either on different occasions or all at once. This practice is permitted under Indian law. Once had a cliet who divorced in this manner and moved to the US and married one of our girls. Years later his "ex" Muslim wife sued him in Texas asking the court not to recognize the divorce. After a long battle the my client prevailed. A muslim is permitted to remarry his divorced wife ONLY after she remarries and consumates the marriage sexually. Bizarre, but the reason is to punish the husband for divorcing her in the first place by forcing him to contemplate his wife in bed with another man. Funny and authentically informative with an unsatisfactory ending but I loved it on the whole

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 17, 2012

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I admire Amar Lakhous for presenting a view of the Moslem immigrant's daily life. His sardonic look at immigrants and the intelligence organizations that hunt terrorists is refreshing and perhaps more true than one would suspect.

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Juliana

The translation is very good, with very few flaws

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2015

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A hilarious yet thoughtful, multi-voiced novel about the paradoxes of immigration and Islamophobia in today's Italy. The translation is very good, with very few flaws.

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Ryan C. Sajder

Must read Italian author!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2014

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Amara Lakhous is a wonderful, 'new' Italian author who approaches topics of Italian culture in a 'comedic' way following a stylistic tradition initiated in Italian cinema. Through the use of the thriller/detective novel, he invites the reader to participate fully into the novel and in essence the world/culture he creates. Everyone should pick up one of his works!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2020

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Not well written, story not interesting, too much dialogue, too many foreign names to remember, I stopped reading it after about 15%.

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Kate G

Well done political satire

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2016

3.5 Political satire that was very well done. Like his other books, I love the illustrated characters on the cover. The characters again are very believable and there are several little plots going on at once to keep you busy. There is a twist at the end, but it left me with questions, so I had to downgrade my rating a bit. I think this author does a great job with touchy subjects using humor and politics. I also learned a few new things.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 16, 2021

Very entertaining read. I loved the way Mr. Lakhous alternated the stories of the two main characters. Despite some of the comments by other reviewers, I thought his way of presenting the story not only worked, but worked well. The reviewer who stopped early in the book missed a good story.

At the end, the author leaves it up to the reader to imagine what happens next. I have my own thoughts on this, but will not ruin the book for someone else by mentioning my view.

There are a couple of editorial nits that could have been caught. I don’t know whether that lies with the translator or the editor. In any event, very enjoyable and I’ve just added his latest book to my inventory as well.

Bravo! Huge fan here.

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C. Ferrara

Like reading a rambling diary

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2016

This book describes the live of an Arab-Italian, working as a court interpreter who somehow gets approached by government officials to go undercover in Rome to spy on suspected Muslim terrorists. It's a bit far-fetched as story goes, but presents insights into Muslim immigrant living in Italy.

The chapters alternate between two main characters, a structure that is "arty" yet ineffective and annoying preventing any flow of story to deveolp. Each chapter is essentially a monologue like reading someone's rambling diary. This unfortunate structure weighs down what little action there is.

People have described it as "hilarious." Although it has a few amusing lines. It's not a comedy.

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Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 4, 2016

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it is an interesting read but weak in ending

DGM

Un chef d'oeuvre...

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on May 6, 2020

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Quelle que soit la langue ds laquelle on lit ce roman, c'est un chef d'oeuvre d'humour & de finesse qui décrit l'Italie d'aujourd'hui et ses problèmes d'immigration, de manière, à la fois, réaliste & bienveillante...
Le meilleur livre que j'ai lu depuis 5 ans au moins !

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