The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel

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The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel

A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.

A three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that countryâ€™s prestigious Premio Strega award.

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 axis, alone with their personal tragedies. As a child, Aliceâ€™s overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia she recognizes 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 Mattiaâ€™s lives for ever, and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem intertwined: they are divisible only by themselves and each other. But the shadow of the lost twin haunts their relationship, until a chance sighting by Alice of a woman who could be Mattiaâ€™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 weâ€™re in love with another? And when Mattia is asked to choose between human love and his professional love â€” of mathematics â€” which will make him more complete?

Country	USA
Author	Paolo Giordano
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101190029
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Penguin Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
NumberOfPages	288
PublicationDate	2010-02-25
Publisher	Penguin Books
ReleaseDate	2010-03-18
Studio	Penguin Books

The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel

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