Thomas Schlesser is the director of the Hartung-Bergman Foundation in Antibes, France. He teaches Art History at the École Polytechnique in Paris and is the author of several works of nonfiction about art, artists, and the relationship between art and politics in the 20th century. He is the grandson of André Schlesser, known as Dadé, a well-known singer and cabaret performer of Roma origins who founded the Cabaret L’Écluse. Mona’s Eyes is Schlesser’s second novel and his American debut. It has been translated into thirty-seven languages, including Braille.