The Eight Mountains
by Paolo Cognetti
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Pub Date Mar 22 2018 | Archive Date Apr 21 2018
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Harvill Secker
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Description
*Winner of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix Médicis étranger*
The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to become.
Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his childhood summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. Bruno, the cowherd son of a local stonemason, knows the mountains intimately. Together they spend many summers exploring the mountains' meadows and peaks, discovering the similarities and differences in their lives. As time passes, the two boys come to find the true meaning of friendship and camaraderie even as their paths diverge, Bruno’s in the mountains and Pietro’s in cities across the globe.
A modern Italian masterpiece, The Eight Mountains is a lyrical coming-of-age story spanning three decades; a novel about the power of male friendships and a meditation on loyalty, being in nature, and finding one's place in the world.
Advance Praise
A fine book, a rich, achingly painful story that is made for all of us
who have ever felt a hunger for the mountains. Few books have so
accurately described the way stony heights can define one’s sense of joy
and rightness. And it is an exquisite unfolding of the deep way humans
may love one another.
Annie Proulx
Could Cognetti be the new Elena Ferrante?
The Bookseller
A great story about friendship and about what it means to become a man
Vanity Fair Italia
There are no more universal themes than those of the landscape,
friendship, and becoming adults, and Cognetti’s writing becomes
classical (and elegant) to best tell this story…a true novel by a great
writer
Rolling Stone Italia
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781787300149 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 272 |
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