Dominic Smith and Edoardo Ballerini discuss Return to Valetto

Watch a conversation between New York Times bestselling author Dominic Smith and audiobook narrator Edoardo Ballerini as they discuss Dominic's latest novel, Return to Valetto. Ballerini narrates the audiobook, which tells the tale of a nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dominic Smith is the author of six novels, including The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a best book of the year at Amazon, Slate, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus Reviews. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and The Australian, among other publications. He grew up in Sydney, Australia, and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
ABOUT THE NARRATOR:
Edoardo Ballerini is an American writer, director, film producer, and actor. He has won many awards for his audiobook narration including AudioFile Earphones Awards for Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How The World Became Modern; Jodi Picoult’s The Storyteller; and Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. He narrated Kenzaburo Oe’s Nobel Prize-winning Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids; Joseph Finder’s The Moscow Club; as well as works by John Edward and Daniel Stashower. In television and film, he is best known for his roles in The Sopranos, 24, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dinner Rush, and Romeo Must Die. The silky-voiced Ballerini is trained in theater and continues to do much work on stage.