From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains comes a story of love and
community in the wild beauty of the Italian Alps The remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda
lives by the seasons. These quiet complex rhythms appeal to Fausto who has left the city of
Milan behind and with it his relationship. He takes a job as chef in a little restaurant and
entrusts himself to new beginnings. Silvia is also seeking change: her sights are on the
glaciers where she has read climbing a thousand metres towards the sky is equivalent to
travelling ten times the same distance to the north. She is in search of her personal North
Pole. When Fausto and Silvia meet one night their story begins: a tender story of love and
renewal of the community that sustains them and of lives humbled by the implacable strength
and beauty of the mountains. As intimate in focus as it is epic in scope The Lovers is a
luminous meditation on our quest to understand our place in one another's lives and in the
magnificence of the world around us. Praise for The Eight Mountains : ' Exquisite ... A rich
achingly painful story' Annie Proulx ' Enchanting ' Guardian ' Brilliant ' New York Times
