The Lovers - Cognetti, Paolo
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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…mehr

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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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Paolo Cognetti
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"Celebrated Italian novelist Paolo Cognetti has crafted a short novel of affecting elegance . . . [calling] Hemingway to mind . . . [here] a small community of simple people seems uncommonly beautiful." - Vogue

"Cognetti... delivers a beautiful meditation on nature, love, and renewal." - Publishers Weekly

"[Cognetti] returns to the slopes with a masterclass in high-altitude atmosphere, a sharp portrait of a community and a touching romance, all condensed into 200 pages. ...[his] talent for distilling emotion without artifice. Crucially, the romance is believable and frail ... Likewise, the mountains are shown as dangerous, luminous, beautiful and utterly indifferent to human ego." - Financial Times

"[Inviting] readers into Fontana Fredda... [through] simple prose, seamlessly translated by Luczkiw, The Lovers is a thoughtfully crafted series of character studies firmly rooted in its setting." - Booklist

"One of Paolo Cognetti's strengths lies in hisability to avoid sentimentality. He never romanticizes, and yet has managed to write a thoroughly romantic love story." - Abendzeitung München

"A mystical journey through the peaks and the roughness of the mountain, the sun and the ice ... A novel of pure love - love for nature, love for people, just simply love - that lifts the soul and the heart." - Les Echos

"A luminous story, at times bare and contemplative. [...] Paolo Cognetti is never bombastic or dogmatic." - Libération

"An enchanting ode to nature that explores the fissures and cracks of human relationships and second chances in life with an immense, luminous power." - La Repubblica
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