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The Lovers (Paperback)
Paolo Cognetti; Translated by Stanley Luczkiw
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Discovery Miles 4 260
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The Eight Mountains (Paperback)
Paolo Cognetti; Contributions by Simon Carnell, Erica Segre
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Discovery Miles 3 650
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The Eight Mountains (Paperback)
Paolo Cognetti; Translated by Erica Segre, Simon Carnell
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'Could Cognetti be the new Elena Ferrante?' Bookseller The
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 Times Pietro, a lonely
city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps.
There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his
father's dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son
of a local stonemason. As the pair run wild, they form a
once-in-a-lifetime friendship. Then one year, the summer visits
stop. Pietro is drawn to cities around the world. 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 PROULX Winner
of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix
Medicis etranger
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The Lovers (Hardcover)
Paolo Cognetti; Translated by Stash Luczkiw
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Discovery Miles 3 800
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From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains
comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the
Italian Alps The remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by
the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who has
left the city of Milan behind, and with it his relationship. He
takes a job as chef in a little restaurant and entrusts himself to
new beginnings. Silvia is also seeking change: her sights are on
the glaciers where, she has read, climbing a thousand metres
towards the sky is equivalent to travelling ten times the same
distance to the north. She is in search of her personal North Pole.
When Fausto and Silvia meet one night, their story begins: a tender
story of love and renewal; of the community that sustains them; and
of lives humbled by the implacable strength and beauty of the
mountains. As intimate in focus as it is epic in scope, The Lovers
is a luminous meditation on our quest to understand our place in
one another's lives, and in the magnificence of the world around
us. Praise for The Eight Mountains: 'Exquisite... A rich, achingly
painful story' Annie Proulx 'Enchanting' Guardian 'Brilliant' New
York Times
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The Lovers (Paperback)
Paolo Cognetti; Translated by Stash Luczkiw
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Discovery Miles 2 560
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From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains
comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the
Italian Alps The remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by
the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who has
left the city of Milan behind, and with it his relationship. He
takes a job as chef in a little restaurant and entrusts himself to
new beginnings. Silvia is also seeking change: her sights are on
the glaciers where, she has read, climbing a thousand metres
towards the sky is equivalent to travelling ten times the same
distance to the north. She is in search of her personal North Pole.
When Fausto and Silvia meet one night, their story begins: a tender
story of love and renewal; of the community that sustains them; and
of lives humbled by the implacable strength and beauty of the
mountains. As intimate in focus as it is epic in scope, The Lovers
is a luminous meditation on our quest to understand our place in
one another's lives, and in the magnificence of the world around
us. Praise for The Eight Mountains: 'Exquisite... A rich, achingly
painful story' Annie Proulx 'Enchanting' Guardian 'Brilliant' New
York Times
An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on
earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight
Mountains Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he
had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region
where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two friends, a notebook,
mules and guides, and a well-worn copy of The Snow Leopard. Written
in 1978, Matthiessen's classic was also turning forty, and Cognetti
set out to walk in the footsteps of the great adventurer. Without
Ever Reaching the Summit combines travel journal, secular
pilgrimage, literary homage and sublime mountain writing in a short
book for readers of Macfarlane, Rebanks and Cognetti's own
bestseller, The Eight Mountains. An investigation into the author's
physical limits, an ancient mountain culture, and the magnificence
of nature, it is an awestruck love letter to one of the most
spectacular places on earth.
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