The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Synopsis

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.

the New York Times Book Review - Liesl Schillinger

…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.