The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A prime number is a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself! or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are also alone with their personal tragedies. As a child Alice's overbearing father drove her first to a skiing accident! and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia she recognizes a kindred 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 a party! and when he returned! she was nowhere to be found. Zusammenfassung A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Giordano
• Assisted by: Shaun Whiteside (Translation)
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.03.2010
• EAN: 9780552775984
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77598-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 178 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Black Swan
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Italienische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Family Life / General, Fiction in translation