Alberto Prunetti was born in a Tuscan steel town in 1973. A former pizza chef, cleaner, and handyman, he is also the author of five novels and has translated works by George Orwell, Angela Davis, David Graeber, and many others. Since 2018 he has directed the Working Class books series for the publisher Edizioni Alegre. Down and Out in England and Italy won the Ultima Frontiera Award and was a finalist for the Biella Literature and Industry Prizes.Elena Pala is translator whose love of all things language has taken her to many weird and wonderful places. After early years spent shepherding tourists around the Eiffel Tower, and pursuing a PhD in linguistics at Cambridge University, followed by a stint at a busy creative agency in London, she eventually found her calling. Previous translations include The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi.

‘A hallucinatory and savage account of modern working life. Both surreal and instantly recognisable.’

Alberto Prunetti was born in a Tuscan steel town in 1973. A former pizza chef, cleaner, and handyman, he is also the author of five novels and has translated works by George Orwell, Angela Davis, David Graeber, and many others. Since 2018 he has directed the Working Class books series for the publisher Edizioni Alegre. Down and Out in England and Italy won the Ultima Frontiera Award and was a finalist for the Biella Literature and Industry Prizes.Elena Pala is translator whose love of all things language has taken her to many weird and wonderful places. After early years spent shepherding tourists around the Eiffel Tower, and pursuing a PhD in linguistics at Cambridge University, followed by a stint at a busy creative agency in London, she eventually found her calling. Previous translations include The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi.

‘A hallucinatory and savage account of modern working life. Both surreal and instantly recognisable.’

Alberto Prunetti was born in a Tuscan steel town in 1973. A former pizza chef, cleaner, and handyman, he is also the author of five novels and has translated works by George Orwell, Angela Davis, David Graeber, and many others. Since 2018 he has directed the Working Class books series for the publisher Edizioni Alegre. Down and Out in England and Italy won the Ultima Frontiera Award and was a finalist for the Biella Literature and Industry Prizes.Elena Pala is translator whose love of all things language has taken her to many weird and wonderful places. After early years spent shepherding tourists around the Eiffel Tower, and pursuing a PhD in linguistics at Cambridge University, followed by a stint at a busy creative agency in London, she eventually found her calling. Previous translations include The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi.

‘A hallucinatory and savage account of modern working life. Both surreal and instantly recognisable.’