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A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else
A prime number can only be divided by itself or by one-it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, both "primes," are misfits who seem destined to be alone. Haunted by childhood tragedies that mark their lives, they cannot reach out to anyone else. When Alice and Mattia meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit.
But the mathematically gifted Mattia accepts a research position that takes him thousands of miles away, and the two are forced to separate. Then a chance occurrence reunites them and forces a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface.
Like Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time, this is a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and the weight of childhood experience that is set to become a universal classic.
…a flawlessly smooth Ameri can English version by Shaun Whiteside…Writers and filmmakers have mined the romance of the "outsider" for decades and longer. But Giordano deromanticizes social alienation. Much of the pathos in these pages comes from the pain his emotionally crippled characters inflict on the people who care about them, people who don't understand that Mattia and Alice are unreachable…The story—the explanation, really—of how two people come to find solitude more comforting than companionship is the subtle work of Giordano's haunting novel, a finely tuned machine powered by the perverse mechanics of need.
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Jovanny Hernandez
reviewed The Solitude of Prime Numbers on January 11, 2010 The Solitude of Prime Numbers
This book is going to be big. But, people still don't know that, people still haven't heard about Paolo Giordano and his brilliant, brilliant work called, 'The solitude of prime numbers'', which stands on the same magnificent title throne with Kundera's, ''Unbearable lightness of being''. And The solitude of prime numbers, easy to say, broke my heart.
Primary numbers are natural numbers that are divided only with number 1 and itself. In this book, in a human form of numbers, Alice and Mattia are separated from the world and from each other with layers of loneliness, personal traumas and decisions. Book is written during their period of 20 years, and with each chapter, you open a new door to a room full of reasonable social awkwardness.
While Alice wants to be accepted, but is suffocating, Mattia just made a ditch around himself and lives his life in accordance with math formulas. Their friendship is strong, but silent and touchless. She can't open him, and he doesn't know how to open himself to anybody. They are a twin prime; there is always a wall between them, they are alone and lost, close, but never too close to get into each others lives. 17 and 19 are divided by the whole world of number 18. 41 and 43 are divided by 42. And it's endless. It's hopeless. It's fucking heartbreaking.
This novel is cold and depressing read on the surface. Underneath you find fire, but it's still hidden and still spiced with scream, isolation, blood and pain. It's a story that is so tragically beautiful that will stay with you. You will not obey their rules and you will want to bridge them up.
You will want to leave an open door to love, or at least possibility of love. Trust me, read this book, please.
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