The Eight Mountains

The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to becomePietro, 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.'Exquisite... A rich, achingly painful story' Annie Proulx'Enchanting' GuardianWinner of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix Medicis etranger

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Cognetti
• Assisted by: Simon Carnell (Translation), Carnell Simon (Translation), Erica Segre (Translation), Segre Erica (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.03.2019
• EAN: 9781784707064
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-706-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, Alps, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Italy, Seasonal interest: Summer, The Alps, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)