A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.
A three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that country’s prestigious Premio Strega award.
A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one: it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, too, move on their own axis, 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 recognizes a kindred, tortured 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.
These two irreversible episodes mark Alice and Mattia’s lives for ever, and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem intertwined: they are divisible only by themselves and each other. But the shadow of the lost twin haunts their relationship, until a chance sighting by Alice of a woman who could be Mattia’s sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface.
A meditation on loneliness and love, The Solitude of Prime Numbers asks, can we ever truly be whole when we’re in love with another? And when Mattia is asked to choose between human love and his professional love — of mathematics — which will make him more complete? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Paolo Giordano was born in Turin in 1982. He is working on a doctorate in particle physics. The Solitude of Prime Numbers is his first novel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
“质数只能被一和它自身整除。在自然数的无穷序列中,它们处于自己的位置上,和其他所有数字一样,被前后两个数字挤着,但它们彼此间的距离却比其他数字更远一步。它们是多疑而又孤独的数字。在质数当中还有一些更加特别的成员,数学家称之为“孪生质数”,它们是离得很近的一...
评分 评分 评分 评分去年年底,我的一个朋友结束了自己的生命。我们认识七八年了,算不上亲密,说了几次见面,但都因为我的各种原因没见成。一直以为,没见过也挺好,面对面的时候,总会有说不出话的尴尬。听到她的消息,心里像有个硬块,不太清楚那是不是悲伤,以我对她这种远距离、表面化的了解...
一对孪生质数终是不能相逢,各自孤独。可故事太忧伤了,我不接受这样的结局。
评分总觉得英语的语气比中文软,所以在故事的叙述层面更让人舒服。但显然中文的词句比英语精,所以在细节的描述部分会略胜一筹。两种译本的对比大大增加了我对原著的兴趣,不过估计这辈子是没机会读(懂)了,sigh一个。
评分not my type of story, but very elegantly written
评分一对孪生质数终是不能相逢,各自孤独。可故事太忧伤了,我不接受这样的结局。
评分kindle读完第一本书。体验良好
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