Both scarred by childhood tragedies, Alice and Mattia find themselves drawn to one another and unable to connect with anyone else in the world, but when Mattia accepts a job thousands of miles away, the two find themselves alone once again.
Two traumatized and lonely people, Mattia and Alice, come to the brink of intimacy but remain, like two "twin prime" numbers, doomed to being forever linked but separated. Alice, crippled by a skiing accident, loses herself in anorexia. Mattia, an antisocial child prodigy who finds more in common with numbers than humans, suffers from the memory of leaving his retarded sister to drown in a river. Only in each other do Mattia and Alice find a chance for compassion and perhaps love. Paolo Giordano, a particle physicist as well as an author, taps into the world of math and physics to create unexpected insights into the nature of human suffering. Though bitterly bleak, THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS is written with such clean, sharp, piercing prose that it can only be considered a thing of beauty. An unforgettable debut, this novel has become an international bestseller and Giordano became the youngest writer, at 27, to win Italy's preeminent literary prize, the 2008 Premio Strega.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: General
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio Lib Edn
- Edition: Unabridged
- Language: English
- Format: audioCD
- Release Date: March 22, 2010
- Date Published: March 22, 2010
- Author: Paolo Giordano
- Narrator: Luke Daniels (Narrator)