Europa Editions is the English-language imprint of edizioni e/o, one of Europe’s most respected independent publishing houses. At edizioni e/o, we count writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Sebold, Gioconda Belli, Benjamin Tammuz, Christa Wolf, Zakes Mda, Edna O’Brien, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kingston and Thomas Pynchon among our better-known authors. We now publish quality fiction from all corners of the globe, but our catalogue has not always been so vast and so international. The e/o adventure began almost thirty years ago when my wife, Sandra Ozzola Ferri, and I founded a small publishing house specialized in literature from eastern Europe. At the time, writers from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other countries in the region, were not being published in Italy; or if they were, publication was sporadic and their books did not form part of any long-range editorial vision. Counting on considerable doses of enthusiasm, interest and care we hoped we would be able to bring at least some of these largely ignored but hugely deserving writers from the east to the attention of Italian audiences.