“I’m here trying to discover new, contemporary classics from countries whose literature is not so well known, such as India, China and Turkey. But a personal interest of mine is Italy. I speak Italian and think there are some wonderful books from there that still need to be discovered and translated. One example which we’re publishing is Andrea Bajani’s Se consideri le colpe (originally published by Einaudi, 2007), which is an incredible story about a boy who travels to Romania to reunite with his mother. Herta Mueller’s having won the Nobel Prize won’t necessarily make people more interested in Romania as a topic, but this book does offer a portrait of an incredible family relationship.”