The Eight Mountains

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*Winner of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix MUdicis Utranger*

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 mountain's 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.*Winner of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix MUdicis Utranger*

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 mountain's 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.
Paolo Cognetti was born in 1978 and is an Italian writer and novelist from Milan. He divides his time between the city and his cabin 6,000 feet up in the Italian Alps. The Eight Mountains spent a year in the Italian bestseller lists since publication, and won Italy's Strega Prize and the French Prix MUdicis Utranger. It is published in 37 countries.