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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".[3] It was the basis for the 2022 film The Eight Mountains.[4] References
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