The Story of Two Unequal Brothers: A father planted two trees in front of his house, one for each child. The first, a larch, is like Luigi: tough and fragile. In 37 years, Luigi has never left the valley. He and his wife, Betta, fell in love while bathing in the river pools among the white birches. Now they are expecting a baby girl. The second tree, the sturdier spruce that thrives on the shady side, is like the quarrelsome Fredo. Years ago, he turned his back on his home. Now he has returned to the valley, seeking to break free from his family home and his origins after his father's death. More separates the two brothers than unites them, and yet their roots grow in the same soil... Paolo Cognetti tells the gripping, condensed story of a conflict of loyalties. Not only is the Piedmontese landscape beautifully captured in words, but also its headstrong people, who are irrevocably transformed by the arrival of modernity and progress. New Shipping fee: 3.99 EUR