Solitude of Prime Numbers A Novel

Name: Solitude of Prime Numbers A Novel
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ISBN: 9780143118596

ISBN-10: 0143118595

ISBN-13: 9780143118596

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Authors: Paolo Giordano

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"Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feels at the subatomic level." -The New York Times A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are both "primes"-misfits haunted by early tragedies. When the two meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit. Years later, a chance encounter reunites them and forces a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface. But can two prime numbers ever find a way to be together? A brilliantly conceived and elegantly written debut novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbersis a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and what it…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/29/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.80" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Paolo Giordano was born in Turin in 1982. He is working on a doctorate in particle physics. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his first novel, has sold over a million copies in its native Italian, and is being translated into twenty languages. It won Italy's answer to the Man Booker Prize, the Premio Strega Award.