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Cargando... Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi (edición 2012)por Amara Lakhous
Información de la obraDivorce Islamic Style por Amara Lakhous
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Spectacular. ( ) This book follows two main protagonists: Safia/Sofia, a young Egyptian woman in an unhappy marriage living in Rome and Christian/Issa, a Sicilian man posing as a recent Tunisian immigrant to learn about two terror cells planning an attack in Rome. The chapters alternate their perspectives, and the tone is lightly comedic, drawing the portraits of their friends and acquaintances. The writing was full of references and sayings, which I enjoyed. (Honestly, the football references were probably the hardest to get.) Sofia's story is a little more compelling than Issa's. She has clear wants and desires and he kind of ... floats along as the plot moves around him. It's a short book with that slightly open ending that you see in a lot of literary fiction. I read it very quickly in one sitting, as it's less than 200 pages. It touches on identity, immigration, feminism, and ideas of home and family. The characters argue about these ideas from many different perspectives. Recommended. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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 uncoverterrorist 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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