The Eight Mountains (novel)

The Eight Mountains (Italian: Le otto montagne) is a 2016 novel by the Italian writer Paolo Cognetti.

It is about the friendship between a boy from Milan and a local boy in the Italian Alps, during childhood and as adults.

[1] The book was a bestseller in Italy and received the Strega Prize in 2017.

[1][2] The Times wrote that it has similarities to My Father's Glory by Marcel Pagnol but is darker and more tragic.

[1] The Guardian wrote that the book's reflections sometimes are "on the brink of being overly mystical" but end up saved by "arrestingly simple language".