The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano
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.
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0 0An interrupted timeline often works for me and this was no exception. There were a few too many dropped plot lines for my taste (I didn’t understand Alice’s accident, how Felix responded to the bathroom on the first date, and what happened to Denis), but I wasn’t thrown by the ambiguous ending.
These characters were complex and in the depths of their loneliness, whether or not they were exceptional in their sadness. I liked the title and the cover, and I think that even more connections could have been made to the math (which perhaps would have given each character even greater depth and personality).
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