The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano Translator: Asa Yoneda

Translator: Asa Yoneda

the Dominican Republic is plunged into the nightmare of a bloody and uncertain aftermath

decades ahead of her time

ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside

she has resigned herself to brutal treatment at the hands of her cruel husband and the carping of her despotic mother-in-law

The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano Translator: Asa YonedaA 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 also move on their own axes, 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 recognises a kindred spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his