Cognetti, P: Lovers

"Paolo Cognetti is a writer of rare wisdom and grace." - Wall Street Journal

"Cognetti... delivers a beautiful meditation on nature, love, and renewal." - Publishers Weekly

"[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

"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] 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

"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

"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