Author: Cognetti, Paolo
Brand: SUPER ET
Edition: 01
Characteristics:
- Publisher: Einaudi
- Author: Paolo Cognetti
- Necklace: Super ET
- Format: book (details not specified)
- Year: 2018
Number of pages: 200
Release date: 2018-10-23
Details: Synopsis Pietro is a lonely and somewhat grumpy city boy. The mother works in a suburban consulting room, and takes charge of others with her talent. The father is a chemist, a shady and charming man, who comes home from work full of anger every night. Pietro's parents are united by a common, foundational passion: in the mountains they met, fell in love, even got married at the foot of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. The mountain has always united them, even in tragedy, and the linear horizon of Milan now fills them with regret and nostalgia. When they discover the village of Grana, at the foot of Monte Rosa, they feel they have found the right place: Pietro will spend every summer in that place "closed upstream by iron-grey crests and downstream by a cliff which hinders access" but crossed by a stream that enchants him from the first moment. And there, waiting for him, is Bruno, blond hair and sunburnt neck: he is the same age but instead of being on vacation he is in charge of grazing the cows. Thus began summers of exploration and discovery, among the abandoned houses, the mill and the roughest paths. These were also the years in which Pietro began walking with his father, "the closest thing to an education I have received from him". Because the mountain is knowledge, a real way of breathing, and will be his truest legacy: "There it is, my legacy: a rock wall, snow, a pile of squared stones, a pine tree". An inheritance that after so many years will bring him closer to Bruno. From the back cover Pietro is a lonely and a little grumpy city boy. The mother works in a suburban consulting room, and takes charge of others with her talent. The father is a chemist, a shady and charming man, who comes home from work full of anger every night. Pietro's parents are united by a common, foundational passion: in the mountains they met, fell in love, even got married at the foot of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. The mountain has always united them, even in tragedy, and the linear horizon of Milan now fills them with regret and nostalgia. When they discover the village of Grana, at the foot of Monte Rosa, they feel they have found the right place: Pietro will spend every summer in that place "closed upstream by iron-grey crests and downstream by a cliff which hinders access" but crossed by a stream that enchants him from the first moment. And there, waiting for him, is Bruno, blond hair and sunburnt neck: he is the same age but instead of being on vacation he is in charge of grazing the cows. Thus began summers of exploration and discovery, among the abandoned houses, the mill and the roughest paths. These were also the years in which Pietro began walking with his father, "the closest thing to an education I have received from him". Because the mountain is knowledge, a real way of breathing, and will be his truest legacy: "There it is, my legacy: a rock wall, snow, a pile of squared stones, a pine tree". A legacy that after so many years will bring him closer to Bruno.
Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
Languages: Italian
