![]() ![]() ![]() His mother and father met in the mountains and it comes to define their life together over and over again, with the Monte Rosa, a massif which runs between ranges in Italy and Switzerland, a refuge and a source of familial tension, particularly for Pietro’s dad who works in the city of Milan but for whom the mountains are a place of relief and almost salvation from the many demons nipping at his heels. Pietro is the son of two people who have always loved the mountains of northern Italy. People often define themselves in terms of context and relationships, and both these important markers of human expression are on poignant display in The Eight Mountains (Le otto montagne) by Paolo Cognetti, a novel which explores how both impact the life of one young Italian man who is surrounded by so much possibility, much of which he struggles to translate into something lasting and meaningful. ![]()
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