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 Eight Montages ed 2017

The Eight Mountains

Title page in original Italian language, Le otto montagne (2016)
Author	Paolo Cognetti
Original title	Le otto montagne
Translator	Simon Carnell Erica Segre
Language	Italian
Publisher	Einaudi [it]
Publication date	2016
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	2018
Pages	199
ISBN	9788806226725

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".^[3]

It was the basis for the 2022 film The Eight Mountains.^[4]