Paolo Giordano
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| Title | : | The Solitude of Prime Numbers |
| Author | : | Paolo Giordano |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 271 pages |
| Published | : | March 18th 2010 by Pamela Dorman Books (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. European Literature. Italian Literature. Romance. Cultural. Italy |
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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.
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| Original Title: | La solitudine dei numeri primi |
| ISBN: | 0670021482 (ISBN13: 9780670021482) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mattia Balossino, Alice della Rocca, Michela Balossino, Viola Bai |
| Setting: | Turin(Italy) |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Strega (2008), Premio Campiello for Opera Prima (2008), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Preis der Jugendjury (2010), Premio Alassio Centolibri - Un autore per l'Europa (2008) |
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Ratings: 3.6 From 46156 Users | 4038 ReviewsCrit Epithetical Books The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Library Overdrive ebook .....🌴FANTASTIC.....A HUGE SURPRISE.....I CANT BELIEVE NOBODY ***HIGHLY RECOMMENDED*** this book to me. I literally picked it from the library- KNEW NOTHING.....Then....quickly did a run-down of ratings on Goodreads. I read a few 3 star reviews - but nobody was raving about it....Then I saw a 4 star review from Marialyce. She didnt rave ...but said it was touching and sad ......and in a way compelling to read of these children who grew up so far removed from affection andThis 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 Kunderas, ''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
This was a an oddly stark book, melancholy in tone, but heartbreakingly beautiful. I often read to escape, to feel lighter, but The Solitude of Prime Numbers added weight to my heart, almost unbearably. Reading the stories of Alice and Mattia, the two damaged souls at the heart of this book, was a pleasure, but definitely not an escape. The translation from Italian is really flawless, I did not see one sentence that seemed awkward. I read The Solitude of Prime Numbers last night, but I have a
I finished this book moments ago and find myself irritated instead of thoughtful. I want to love this novel, it's unusual, bleak, as real and demanding as gum stuck to your shoe, but there is no payoff for my time spent with it. Each painstakingly set-up scenario of adolescent and adult angst/trauma is left dangling like a series of complicated esher drawings that lead nowhere and are partially erased.The author's style is raw and minimal. He's able to occupy a girl/woman's psyche as seamlessly
This book is written by the 26 years old Italian paolo Giordano, who won the premio strega with his first book this year. read it in two days and felt like I flew through it, didn't felt like putting it down and was constantly thinking to continue reading it. I had imagined or hoped it would end different but maybe that would have been too easy. Maybe better the way it did end...
I read it with constant lumps in my throat, secretly hoping, wishfully thinking... It's probably the kind of book you want to get back to, every now and then.---Let me just add that I've found the book surprisingly global, there's nothing Italian in it except the names; it could be anyone anywhere. Smart move, Paolo!Plus, I did something I'd never tried before: read a foreign book in English translation.
The only experience that can rival reading a really great book is reading a really awful one and ripping it on goodreads; especially if, like this one, it comes with glowing recommendations. Except for some of the writing (maybe), this book had absolutely no redeeming feature. It was one of the most depressing books I have ever read, with no redemption and completely non-endearing self-involved characters who were either pathetic, sadistic, or both. You didnt want anything good to happen to
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