The Lovers
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  • Published: 23 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781787303379
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $45.00

The Lovers

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15 Oct 2024
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5 Jul 2022
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23 Jun 2022
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23 Jul 2022
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From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains, 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.
  • Published: 23 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781787303379
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Paolo Cognetti

Paolo Cognetti was born in 1978 in Milan. He divides his time between the city and his cabin 6,000 feet up in the Italian Alps. His international bestseller, The Eight Mountains, is published in 38 countries, and won both Italy’s Premio Strega and the French Prix Médicis étranger. Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Himalayan Journey is his most recent book.

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Praise for The Lovers

A masterclass in high-altitude atmosphere, a sharp portrait of a community and a touching romance, all condensed into 200 pages... [and] elegantly translated by Stash Luczkiw

Financial Times

A beautiful meditation on nature, love, and renewal.

Publishers Weekly

A novel of pure love - love for nature, love for people, just simply love - that lifts the soul and the heart.

Les Echos

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

A charming love story

Choice Magazine

A beautiful meditation on nature, love, and renewal.

Publishers Weekly

A novel of pure love - love for nature, love for people, just simply love - that lifts the soul and the heart.

Les Echos

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