Michele Mari is one of Italy’s most renowned novelists, poets, and translators. A former professor of Italian literature at the University of Milan, he has translated classic novels by Herman Melville, George Orwell, John Steinbeck and H. G. Wells. Brian Robert Moore is a literary translator whose published and forthcoming translations from the Italian include A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano, Meeting in Positano by Goliarda Sapienza and Michele Mari's You, Bleeding Childhood, which was the first book by Mari to be published in English.

‘There are books before which there came other books, and then there are books before which – and after which, too – there’s nothing else.’ Giorgio Vasta, Nazione Indiana