Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

The immigrant tenants of a building in Rome offer skewed accounts of a murder in this prize-winning satire by the Algerian-born Italian author (Publishers Weekly).Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglot community of immigrants who have come to Rome from all over the world. But when a tenant is murdered in the building's elevator, the delicate balance is thrown into disarray. As each of the victim's neighbors is questioned by the police, readers are offered an all-access pass into the most colorful neighborhood in contemporary Rome.With language as colorful as the neighborhood it describes, each character takes his or her turn "e;giving evidence."e; Their various stories reveal much about the drama of racial identity and the anxieties of a life spent on society's margins, but also bring to life the hilarious imbroglios of this melting pot Italian culture."e;Their frequently wild testimony teases out intriguing psychological and social insight alongside a playful whodunit plot."e; -Publishers Weekly