The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Ducks in myriad green and ochre

in myriad green and ochre tones

a young mother on the beach

thus balancing their body and mind

or one minute after

"If you follow it downstream

The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Ducks in myriad green and ochreA fun and farcical novel, this new "whodunit" about life in multicultural Italy by Amara Lakhous will delight fans of Lakhous' earlier bestseller, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, and readers of novels such as The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany. Bittersweet, like any self respecting Italian comedy, The Prank is a Pirandellian exploration of identity in today's multicultural, polyglot societies. Lakhous draws