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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2008
  • Latest Book:
    February 2026
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • 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 fro...



  • It's 2005. The Italian secret service has received intel that a group of Muslim immigrants based in the Viale Marconi neighborhood of Rome is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover ...



  • An Italian journalist gets wrapped up in the criminality and cultural controversies of modern Turin in this "very funny" satirical novel (The New York Times). It's October 2006. The northern Italian town of Turin has been rocked by a series of mur...



  • A Turin journalist must investigate when a local girl is allegedly assaulted by two Romani boys in this farcical whodunit for fans of Alaa Al Aswany.Bittersweet, like any self-respecting Italian comedy, The Prank is a Pirandellian exploration of iden...




  • A criminal investigation plumbs the seedy underbelly of Oran in this heady psychological thriller spanning the history of postcolonial Algeria.Oran, July 5, 2018. Algerian Independence Day. Colonel Soltani of the anti-terrorist unit reluctantly gives...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Amara Lakhous has published 6 books.

The next book by Amara Lakhous, The Fertility of Evil, will be published in February 2026.

The first book by Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, was published in October 2008.

No. Amara Lakhous does not write books in series.