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The million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of the Premio Strega - a stunning debut about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.
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Paolo Giordano was born in Turin in 1982. He is working on a doctorate in particle physics. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his first novel, has sold over a million copies in its native Italian, and is being translated into twenty languages. It won Italy's answer to the Man Booker Prize, the Premio Strega Award.
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He had learned his lesson. Choices are made in a few seconds and paid for in the time that remains . . .
A prime number is a lonely thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are also alone, each haunted by childhood trauma. Alice bears the scars of a terrible skiing accident that nearly killed her, and Mattia lives with a guilty secret that lies at the heart of his disabled twin sister's disappearance. When they meet as teenagers, they each recognize in the other a kindred, damaged spirit.
As they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined: they are divisible only by themselves and each other. But when the gifted Mattia wins a mathematics posting that takes him thousands of miles away, it seems that love, or its loss, might just be a game of numbers after all; until a chance sighting by Alice of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of hidden emotion to the surface.
A stunning meditation on aloneness, love and the weight of childhood experience, The Solitude of Prime Numbers asks, can we ever be whole when we're in love with another? And how much of ourselves do we give away?
A sensation in its native Italy, where it has sold over a million copies, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a remarkable début that has now been translated into thirty languages. Born in 1982, Paolo Giordano, a particle physicist, is the youngest ever winner of Italy's prestigious Premio Strega award.
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- EditoreDoubleday
- Data di pubblicazione2009
- ISBN 10 0385616252
- ISBN 13 9780385616256
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine352
- Contatto del produttorenon disponibile
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, too, move on their own axes, alone with their personal tragedies. As a child Alice's overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia she recognises a kindred, tortured spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowhere to be found. These two irreversible episodes mark Alice and Mattia's lives for ever, and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined: they are divisible only by themselves and each other. But the shadow of the lost twin looms over their relationship, until a chance sighting by Alice of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface. A meditation on loneliness and love, The Solitude of Prime Numbers asks, can we ever truly be whole when we re in love with another? And when Mattia is asked to choose between human love and his professional love of mathematics which will make him more complete? 320 pages. Codice articolo 1518946
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