The solitude of prime numbers
By: Paolo Giordano ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
Contributors: Whiteside, Shaun
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leicester [England]
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Translation of: La solitudine dei numeri primi
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781444800807
Subjects: Solitude; Friendship; Life change events; Fiction
Description: "A prime number is a lonely thing: it can be divided only by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another ... Alice and Mattia are alone. Alice bears the scars of a skiing accident that nearly killed her, and Mattia lives with a guilty secret that lies at the heart of his disabled twin sister's disappearance. They each recognize in the other a kindred, damaged spirit - their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined. But when Mattia accepts a mathematics posting that takes him thousands of miles away, it seems that love might just be a game of numbers after all; until a chance sighting by Alice of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of hidden emotion to the surface."--Publisher description.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.

Originally published in Great Britain: London : Doubleday, 2009.

Translated from the Italian.

Winner, Premio Strega, 2008.