'Could Cognetti be the new Elena Ferrante?' Bookseller The international sensation that spent a year on the Italian bestseller list about two young boys who meet in the mountains every summer; and the men they grow up to become 'ENCHANTING' Guardian 'BRILLIANT' New York Times 'ABSORBING' Irish Times Pietro; a lonely city boy; spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There; surrounded by meadows and peaks; he begins to learn of his father's dreams and passions. There; too; he meets Bruno; the son of a local stonemason. As the pair run wild; they form a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. Then one year; the summer visits stop. Pietro is drawn to cities around the world. But the memory of the mountains never leaves him and; after his father dies; he returns in search of the freedom and camaraderie that he once knew. 'Exquisite... A rich; achingly painful story' ANNIE PROULX Winner of the 2017 Strega Prize; the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix Medicis etranger