Ada d’Adamo was an Italian essayist and poet. After giving birth to her disabled daughter, Daria, d’Adamo became an advocate for people with disabilities and for inter-abled families. While working on a memoir for her daughter, she was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. She passed away on 1 April 2023. Three months later, this memoir, Gravity, won the Strega Prize.Alex Valente is a highly regarded translator of Italian literature. He has translated multiple books in both Italian and French, including works by Elena Varvello, Valeria Parrella and Michela Murgia, as well as translating role-playing games and game manuals. In 2017, he received the English PEN Translates Award for his translation of Elena Varvello’s Can You Hear Me?. His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Short Story Project and PEN Transmissions.

'A novel that delves into the reader's heart. It took the precise and implacable language of this writer to support such a ferocious sentiment. You enter this book with enormous ease, but you come out of this book changed. There is such an amount of life in its pages that it leaves us breathless.'

Ada d’Adamo was an Italian essayist and poet. After giving birth to her disabled daughter, Daria, d’Adamo became an advocate for people with disabilities and for inter-abled families. While working on a memoir for her daughter, she was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. She passed away on 1 April 2023. Three months later, this memoir, Gravity, won the Strega Prize.Alex Valente is a highly regarded translator of Italian literature. He has translated multiple books in both Italian and French, including works by Elena Varvello, Valeria Parrella and Michela Murgia, as well as translating role-playing games and game manuals. In 2017, he received the English PEN Translates Award for his translation of Elena Varvello’s Can You Hear Me?. His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Short Story Project and PEN Transmissions.

'A novel that delves into the reader's heart. It took the precise and implacable language of this writer to support such a ferocious sentiment. You enter this book with enormous ease, but you come out of this book changed. There is such an amount of life in its pages that it leaves us breathless.'