The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level. -The New York Times

From the author of Heaven and Earth, a sensational novel about whether a prime number can ever truly connect with someone else

A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are both primes-misfits haunted by early tragedies. When the two meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit. Years later, a chance encounter reunites them and forces a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface. But can two prime numbers ever find a way to be together? A brilliantly conceived and elegantly written debut novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and what it means to be human.

Author: Paolo Giordano
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 03/29/2011
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.68h x 5.15w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780143118596
ISBN10: 0143118595
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Family Life | General

About the Author
Paolo Giordano is also the author of the critically acclaimed Like Family and The Human Body, and the international bestseller The Solitude of Prime Numbers, which has been translated into more than forty languages, as well as How Contagion Works, about the COVID-19 pandemic. Heaven and Earth is his latest novel. Giordano has a PhD in particle physics and is now a full-time writer. He lives in Italy.