Eight Mountains Cognetti Paolo AuthorPaperback
Eight Mountains Cognetti Paolo AuthorPaperback 'Could Cognetti be the new Elena Ferrante?' BooksellerThe international sensation that spent a year on the Italian bestseller list about two young boys…
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Eight Mountains Cognetti Paolo AuthorPaperback
'Could Cognetti be the new Elena Ferrante?' BooksellerThe international sensation that spent a year on the Italian bestseller list about two young boys who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow up to become 'ENCHANTING' Guardian 'BRILLIANT' New York Times 'ABSORBING' Irish TimesPietro, a lonely city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father's dreams and passions.
Pietro is drawn to cities around the world. As the pair run wild, they form a once-in-a-lifetime friendship.Then one year, the summer visits stop. But the memory of the mountains never leaves him and, after his father dies, he returns in search of the freedom and camaraderie that he once knew.
'Exquisite... A rich, achingly painful story'ANNIE PROULXWinner of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix Medicis etranger