the solitude of prime numbers by paolo giordano

But the shadow of the lost twin haunts 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. Alice is a wilful anorexic, scarred by a childhood skiing. These two irreversible episodes mark Alice and Mattia’s lives for ever, and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem intertwined: they are divisible only by themselves and each other. The Solitude of Prime Numbers follows the lives of Alice and Mattia from childhood to middle age. The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Italian: La solitudine dei numeri primi) is a 2008 Italian novel by Paolo Giordano. 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. The Solitude of Prime Numbers: Author: Paolo Giordano: Genre: Novel: Written: 2008 (Eng. As a child, Alice’s overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia.

Alice and Mattia, too, move on their own axis, alone with their personal tragedies. A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one it never truly fits with another. A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.Ī three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that country’s prestigious Premio Strega award.Ī prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one: it never truly fits with another.

The solitude of prime numbers by paolo giordano