the solitude of prime numbers by paolo giordano

The fascination of Giordano's writing lies in his deft delineation of the personalities congealed in these frozen figures. 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.

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. But Giordano deromanticizes social alienation. Writers and filmmakers have mined the romance of the 'outsider' for decades and longer. flawlessly smooth American English version by Shaun Whiteside. It is being translated into thirty languages and has sold all over the world. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his first novel, took Italy by storm where it has sold over a million copies. Paolo Giordano is a professional physicist in particle physics. Then a chance occurrence reunites them, forcing a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface. When Mattia accepts a research position that takes him thousands of miles away, the two are forced to separate. When Alice and Mattia meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit. Haunted by childhood tragedies that mark their lives, they cannot reach out to anyone else. Alice and Mattia are both misfits who seem destined to be alone.

The solitude of prime numbers by paolo giordano