My Shadow Is Yours

Praise for Story of My People:

“A short memoir of great charm, for all its sadness a pleasure to read…Nesi’s musings are as finely woven as his textiles.” —New York Times

“An intimate account of a homespun world, ‘glistening and weightless like silk,’ destroyed by rapid globalization…In gleefully biting prose, Nesi excoriates Italy’s politicians, its arrogant economists, and the ‘titanic foreign multinationals.’” —The New Yorker

“At once a memoir, a requiem, and a work of social and literary criticism…beautifully written.” —Bookforum

Edoardo Nesi is a writer, filmmaker, and translator. He began his career translating the work of authors such as Bruce Chatwin, Malcolm Lowry, Stephen King, and Quentin Tarantino. He has written six novels, one of which, L’et dell’oro, was a finalist for the 2005 Strega Prize and a winner of the Bruno Cavallini Prize. He wrote and directed the film Fughe da fermo, based on his novel of the same name, and has translated David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest into Italian.

Gregory Conti has translated numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from Italian including works by Emilio Lussu, Rosetta Loy, Elisa Biagini, and Paolo Rumiz. He is a regular contributor to the literary quarterly, Raritan.

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