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by Paolo Castaldi
Translated by Maaza Mengiste

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© Paolo Castaldi. By arrangement with the author. Translation © 2012 by Maaza Mengiste. All rights reserved.
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Paolo CastaldiPaolo Castaldi

Paolo Castaldi is an Italian illustrator and author of graphic novels. He debuted in 2005 with I Will Never Grow Up, and followed with The Anomaly, both written by Adriano Barone and published by Star Comics. In 2007, Castaldi’s Io e Te was chosen as “Debut of the Month” by the magazine Scuola di Fumetto, and in 2008 he went on to publish Non Troppo Lontano, a historical graphic novel dealing with the Milanese anti-fascist resistance movement of 1943-45. Castaldi also collaborated with Edizione Voilier to publish a two-volume graphic novel, Nuvole Rapide. In 2011, he wrote and illustrated Etenesh, the Odyssey of a Migrant, published by BeccoGiallo. 

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Translated from ItalianItalian by Maaza MengisteMaaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and lived in Nigeria and Kenya before settling in the United States. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a Pushcart Prize nominee. and among other places, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Granta, Callaloo Journal, The Granta Anthology of the African Short Story, Lettre Internationale, and on BBC Radio 4.  Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Beneath the Lion’s Gaze has been translated into several other languages and has appeared on several “Best of 2010” lists, includingPublishers Weekly and the Christian Science Monitor. It was named one of the 10 best contemporary African novels by the Guardian. She was the Runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a finalist for a Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, an NAACP Image Award, and an Indies Choice Book of the Year Award in Adult Debut. She currently lives in New York City.

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