by Paolo Cognetti · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253073871
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«Les Huit Montagnes» is the novel by Paolo Cognetti, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Pietro is a city boy who one summer discovers Grana, in the Aosta Valley. There he meets Bruno, a young shepherd, and with him he walks trails, woods and pastures. In that landscape, Pietro sees his father transform into an attentive mountaineer. Twenty years later, he returns to the mountain to make peace with his past.
«Les Huit Montagnes» is the French version, translated from Italian by Anita Rochedy, of the original novel «Le otto montagne». «Les Huit Montagnes» won the Prix Médicis étranger 2017.
For readers of contemporary fiction, Italian fiction and stories about nature and friendship.
Paolo Cognetti is an Italian writer and filmmaker, winner of the 2017 Strega Prize.
