The Solitude Of Prime Numbers Av Paolo Giordano

<p>A prime number is inherently a solitary thin it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia also move on their own axes, alone with their personal tragedies. As a child Alice''s overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia she recognises a kindred spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowhere to be found.<br><br>These two irreversible episodes mark Alice and Mattia''s lives for ever, and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined. But then a chance sighting of a woman who could be Mattia''s sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface. <br><br>A meditation on loneliness and love, <i>The Solitude of Prime Numbers</i> asks, can we ever truly be whole when we''re in love with another?</p>