The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• Alice: Main character, Mattia's platonic love
• Mattia Balossino: Main character, Genius childSeine Zwillingsschwester verschwand spurlos, als beide in der dritten Klasse waren. Er ist ein Überflieger und Mathematikgenie. Seine Probleme bekommt er nicht unter Kontrolle, also ritzt er sich.
• Michela Balossino: Mattia's twin sister
• Denis: Mattia's friend from school
• Fernanda: Alice's mother
• Mr. Della Rocca: Alice's father
• Alberto: Mattia's colleague
• Fabio: A young doctor who Alice meets at the hospital
• Soledad: Alice's family housekeeper
• Viola: Popular, yet cruel girl at Alice's school
• Riccardo: Add a description of this character.
• Adele: Mattia and Michela's mother
• Pietro Balossino: Mattia and Michela's father
• Eric: Alice's ski instructor
• Ernesto
• Pablo
• Crozza

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• “Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”

• “Als hij ergens anders heen was gegaan, zou ze het op de een of andere manier hebben geweten. Want Mattia en zij waren verbonden door een onzichtbare, elastische band die schuilging onder een hoop onbenulligheden, een band die alleen kon bestaan tussen twee mensen zoals zij: twee mensen die hun eigen eenzaamheid in de ander hadden herkend.”

  Alice

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• Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

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• the love of those we don’t love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

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• feeling special is the worst kind of cage that a person can build for himself,

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• Other times he suspected that they too would have preferred to be like all the others, just ordinary numbers, but for some reason they couldn’t do it.

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• Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

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• Thinking about it now, he felt stupid, as we all do when we remember all the time we waste wishing we were somewhere else.

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• Because she and Mattia were united by an invisible, elastic thread, buried under a pile of meaningless things, a thread that could exist only between two people like themselves: two people who had acknowledged their own solitude within the other.

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• She depended on the place now; she had grown attached to it with the obstinacy with which people become attached only to things that hurt them.

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• Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.

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• Perhaps because she had that bad leg and lacked a mother as he lacked a wife and all lacks are pretty much the same.

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Page 288 reads " .... but in none of the students could he spot anything than(sic) reminded him of himself." It should read "that"

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Paolo Giordano (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
2. Mieke Geuzebroek (Translator)
3. Pietha de Voogd (Translator)
4. Juan Manuel Salmero?n (Translator) - Spanish version / Versión en Español

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Awards edit see section history

• Sakura Medal (Finalist, 2012)
• Premio Strega Award

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• Dewey: 853.92

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary