The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel - Couverture souple

Giordano, Paolo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143118595 ISBN 13 : 9780143118596

Editeur : Penguin Books, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Giordano Paolo

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"A mesmerizing portrait of a young man and woman whose injured natures draw them together over the years and inevitably pull them apart. Mr. Giordano remarkably and movingly portrays the hesitant groping toward warmth that works beneath the pair's emotional disabilities. The author works with piercing subtlety. An exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level."
-Richard Eder for The New York Times

"The melancholy that hangs over The Solitude of Prime Numbers is seductive and unnerving. A-."
-Entertainment Weekly

"Giordano's passionate evocation of being young and in despair will resonate strongly with readers."
-USA Today

"The elegant and fiercely intelligent debut novel by 27-year-old physicist Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers revolves around Mattia and Alice, friends since high school-'twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other,' wherein resides the seductive enchantment of this singular love story."
-Elle

"This compelling debut shows a remarkable sensitivity and maturity in the depiction of its damaged soulmates. A fragile, unconventional love story by a talent to watch."
-Kirkus

"A deeply touching debut. Beautiful and affecting...it reads easily, due in party to the almost seamless translation. An intimate psychological portrait of two 'prime numbers'-together alone and alone together."
-Booklist

"Surprising, intimate and deeply moving, The Solitude of Prime Numbers takes the readers on a hypnotic journey through an unexpected love affair. Paolo Giordano writes with grace and elegance of gentle but damaged characters, using inventive language to create a story unlike anything in recent fiction. This is everything a debut novel should be and leaves one longing for the books that will follow."
-John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

"Paul Giordano is an expert on loss and sorrow. He understands and reveals the hidden hollows of the heart. His story is a quiet one, but his strong writing and unforgettable characters make his book a page turner. The Solitude of Prime Numbers is sad, dark and perfect."
-Mary Pipher, author of Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World

"What a shock to open a novel written by a young physicist in Italy and find myself there, on every page. No wonder Giordano's readers can be counted in the millions; this astute, aching contemplation of solitude has a power to make us all feel a little less alone. A love story told with astonishing perceptiveness and remarkable subtlety, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is an extraordinary affirmation of the reasons we read."
-Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting

Quatrième de couverture :

He had learned his lesson. Choices are made in a few seconds and paid for in the time that remains . . .

A prime number is a lonely thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are also alone, each haunted by childhood trauma. Alice bears the scars of a terrible 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. When they meet as teenagers, they each recognize in the other a kindred, damaged spirit.

As they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined: they are divisible only by themselves and each other. But when the gifted Mattia wins a mathematics posting that takes him thousands of miles away, it seems that love, or its loss, 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.

A stunning meditation on aloneness, love and the weight of childhood experience, The Solitude of Prime Numbers asks, can we ever be whole when we're in love with another? And how much of ourselves do we give away?

A sensation in its native Italy, where it has sold over a million copies, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a remarkable début that has now been translated into thirty languages. Born in 1982, Paolo Giordano, a particle physicist, is the youngest ever winner of Italy's prestigious Premio Strega award.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0143118595
• ISBN 13: 9780143118596
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 288