The Eight Mountains

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino

English language translation copyright © 2018 by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

Originally published in Italy in 2016 by Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a. Turin, under the title Le otto montagne

Published by agreement with MalaTesta Literary Agency, Milan

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Jacket design and illustration by Tyler Comrie

Author photograph by Niko Giovanni Coniglio

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Cognetti, Paolo, 1978– author. | Carnell, Simon, 1962– translator. | Segre, Erica, translator.

Title: The eight mountains : a novel / Paolo Cognetti ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.

Other titles: Otto montagne. English

Description: First Atria Books hardcover edition. | New York : Atria Books, March 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017038835 (print) | LCCN 2017048427 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501169908 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501169885 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501169892 (paperback)

Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Coming of Age. | FICTION / General.

Classification: LCC PQ4903.O36 (ebook) | LCC PQ4903.O36 O8813 2018 (print) |

DDC 853/.92—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017038835

ISBN 978-1-5011-6988-59288-3

ISBN 978-1-5011-6990-8 (ebook)