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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
La solitudine dei numeri primi
Paolo Giordano (born 1982)
Translated by Shaun Whiteside
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking · United States · 2010 · 271 pages
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Doubleday · United Kingdom · 2009 · 348 pages
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Alice is seven and hates the ski school her father forces her to attend. One foggy morning, separated from the others, she wets herself, tries to ski down alone out of shame, goes off the piste and breaks her leg, left alone at the bottom of a snowy gully. Mattia is a clever boy with a mentally disabled twin sister, Michela, who embarrasses him in front of his classmates; the first time they are both invited to a party, he leaves her in a park, promising to come back soon. These two episodes brand the lives of Alice and Mattia as teenagers, young people and adults, whose paths cross again and again, close but never close enough to touch.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 304 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2008 by Mondadori
- Author's age
- 26 when first published
- ISBN
9788804577027 (original)
9780385616249 (Doubleday, United Kingdom)
9780670021482 (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, United States)
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