The Solitude of Prime Numbers

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<p>THE AWARD-WINNING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER<br><br><b>Discover the heartbreakingly beautiful novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.</b><br><br><b>'Surprising, intimate and deeply moving' </b>John Boyne, bestselling author of <i>The Heart's Invisible Furies</i><br><br><b>'Mesmerising'</b><i> Good Housekeeping</i><br><br><b>A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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><b>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?</b><br><br>Praise for <i>The Solitude of Prime Numbers:</i><br><br><b>'Clear, heartbreakingly precise prose</b>, the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Premio Strega (the Italian Man Booker)...<b> a stunning achievement' </b><i>Daily Mail<br><br>'</i>Very accomplished... <b>melancholic, but strangely beautiful</b>' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'This <b>astute, aching contemplation of solitude </b>has a power to make us all feel a little less alone. <b>A love story told with astonishing</b> perceptiveness and remarkable subtlety' Stefan Merrill Block, author of <i>The Story of Forgetting</i><br><br>'Incredibly <

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780552775984

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

177 x 113 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Verlag / Hersteller

Transworld Publ. Ltd UK