Everything Is Broken Up and Dances: The Crushing of the Middle Class. This item is unavailable.Everything Is Broken Up and Dances: The Crushing of the Middle Class

Just a handful of years into the new millennium, globalisation has had a profound impact on economies and societies throughout Europe and America. In this accessible yet literary work, Edoardo Nesi and Guido Maria Brera illustrate its effects in Italy through the changes that occurred in their own lives: while the former was forced to sell the textile company his grandfather founded before World War II, the latter became one of the key figures in European asset management.

Edoardo Nesi is a writer, filmmaker, translator, and politician. He began his career translating the work of such authors as Bruce Chatwin, Malcolm Lowry, Stephen King, and Quentin Tarantino. He has written six novels, one of which, L'età 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. In 2013 he was elected as a member of the Italian Parliament's Chamber of Deputies.

Guido Maria Brera is a founding partner of the Kairos Group, an Italian investment management company created in 1999 of which he is Chief Investment Officer. He is the author of I diavoli (2014).

Antony Shugaar is an author as well as a translator. His recent translations include On Earth as It Is in Heaven by Davide Enia, A Pimp's Notes, by Giorgio Faletti, Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone, Romanzo Criminale by Giancarlo De Cataldo, and The Four Corners of Palermo by Giuseppe Di Piazza (Other Press).