Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp

Decades after a formative summer in the 1980s, a close-knit group of former school friends reunites to cycle up a legendary mountain in Provence, forcing them to confront the love, rivalry, and long-buried secrets that once bound and divided them. As they retrace the route of a tragic climb that shattered their innocence, the narrator sifts through memory and myth to uncover what really happened and what it meant, exploring how time, ambition, and desire reshape friendships—and how a mountain can become a mirror for regret and redemption.

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