Whatever fate is, it resides in the mountains above our heads – this statement is absolutely true for the protagonists of the novel Osm hor. In the mountains, the parents of Pietro, one of the two main male characters, fell in love, in the mountains, Pietro meets Bruno, his best friend. Hikes into the mountains become the educational method of Pietro's father, a reclusive chemist who accumulates his anger at the whole world and his longing for the mountain peaks in the gray of Milan. Both Pietro's and Bruno's adult lives will be firmly tied to the mountains... Paolo Cognetti's bestseller is published in thirty-three countries.