The solitude of prime numbers
by Paolo Giordano
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"A prime number is a lonely thing: it can be divided only by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another ... Alice and Mattia are alone. Alice bears the scars of a skiing accident that nearly killed her, and Mattia lives with a guilty secret that lies at the heart of his disabled twin sister's disappearance. They each recognize in the other a kindred, damaged spirit - their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined. But when Mattia accepts a mathematics posting that takes him thousands of miles away, it seems that love might just be a game of numbers after all; until a chance sighting by Alice of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of hidden emotion to the surface."--Publisher description.
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Life change events, Fiction, Solitude, Friendship, Fiction, psychological, Friendship, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Psychological aspects of Life change events, Literature, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, romance, generalPlaces
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Zhi shu de gu du: La solitudine dei numeri primi
2011, Shanghai yi wen chu ban she
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La Solitud dels nombres primers
2010, Edicions 62
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8499300731 9788499300733
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
2010, Transworld Publishers Limited
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0552775983 9780552775984
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
September 22, 2009, Doubleday UK
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0385616252 9780385616256
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La solitudine dei numeri primi: romanzo
2008, Mondadori
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Translated from the Italian.
Originally published in Great Britain: London : Doubleday, 2009.
Translated from the Italian.
Winner, Premio Strega, 2008.
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Misfits Alice and Mattia bond as teens over shared experiences of suffering before mathematically gifted Mattia accepts a research position that takes him far away, a situation that restores their isolation before they meet by chance years later.
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