Le otto montagne

Name: Le otto montagne
ISBN: 9788806226725

by Paolo Cognetti

Premio Strega · 2017 · Winner

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EinaudiOctober 25, 2016Literary FictionISBN 9788806226725

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Award	Year	Status	Citation
Premio Strega	2017	Winner

About This Book

A novel about a deep friendship between two boys — one from Milan, one from a mountain village in Piedmont — that spans decades and asks what it means to find one's place in the world, set against the backdrop of the Italian Alps.

About the Author

Paolo CognettiIT

Paolo Cognetti is an Italian novelist and essayist born in 1978 in Milan. He grew up in the city but has spent increasing amounts of time in the Alps, and the mountains are central to both his life and his fiction. He has spent summers in a mountain cabin in Valle d'Aosta since adolescence, and this attachment to wild landscape shapes his writing profoundly. Read more →