The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Chinese Edition)

The Solitude of Prime Numbers is the first published work of Italian author and mathematician Paul Giordano. The book won Italys top literary award in 2008 after being published in 2008. Alice and Mattia, both survivors of childhood traumas, are the odd ones out amid the adolescent masses in their high school. Mattia has never recovered from the loss of his sister, while Alice still suffers the effects of a skiing accident that damaged her physically and stunted her ability to trust. Now teenagers, Mattia, also addicted to self-injury, has withdrawn into a world of numbers and math, and Alice gains control through starving herself and photography. When they meet, they recognize something primal in each other, but timing and awkwardness keep their friendship on tenuous ground until, years later, their lives come together one last time. Giordano uses Mattia and Alice's trajectory to ask whether there are some peoplethe prime numbers among uswho are destined to be alone, or whether two primes can come together.