Divorce Islamic Style

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. Amara lakhous ; translated from the italian by ann goldstein. Original title: divorzio all'islamica a viale marconi.

Publisher: Europa Editions