The Lovers

ISBN-13: 9780063115408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Paolo Cognetti; Stanley Luczkiw

Recenzje

"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 his ability 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

O autorze

Paolo Cognetti is an Italian writer, novelist, and editor from Milan. He divides his time between the city and his cabin in the Italian Alps. He is the author of Without Ever Reaching the Top and The Eight Mountains, which was an international sensation and won Italy's Strega Prize and the French Prix Médicis étranger.