Les vuit muntanyes de Paolo Cognetti

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Les vuit muntanyes de Paolo Cognetti, a literary phenomenon that triumphs in Europe.

Pietro is a lonely, slightly sullen city boy who spends the summer in the Italian Alps. Bruno is the son of a local paddler, a person who only knows the mountains and grazes his uncle’s cows. Summer after summer, Pietro and Bruno have a close friendship, but over the years their paths take different paths. Who of the two has learned the most from life? What has traveled the mountains around the world or what has only climbed to the highest peak? A novel of apparent narrative simplicity, which reflects deeply on friendship, loneliness, aspirations, life expectancies and paternal-child relationships. A life journey that tells us about the need to escape to nature, in constant search for a path that leads to one’s own identity.