Reasons why I really, really liked the book:
- It was given to me by one of the few friends who give me books as presents, and who I don't think has ever gone wrong (though at the moment my baby daughter appears very attracted by the cats in a copy of Maus that she gave me years ago, and I'm not quite sure that's a good thing)
- It is about the region where the Alps dive into the Mediterranean, the place of many of my summer holidays
- It is about the lost souls who lose their lives for one reason or another on those mountains - and this is a time when desperate migrants try to make their way from Italy to France on those very paths
- It's written in a style that's halfway between Fenoglio and Izzo
- It has one of Cezanne's landscapes on its cover, those were the first works of art that I truly came to love as a kid, and this would have been enough by itself
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