![]() ![]() But to hold this one still for a moment, it is the story of Alice, crippled as a child in a ski fall and anorexic thereafter, and Mattia, a math prodigy whose guilt over the death of his mentally backward twin sister has led him repeatedly to scar or burn himself. With some novels, the more they are described, the less they are conveyed. ![]() If anything, it is a venture into an undiscovered realm of astonishing shapes and colors. “The Solitude of Prime Numbers” is neither psychological drama nor plight-driven melodrama. That is the bare-bones summary, and just as misleading as attempting to use Mona Lisa’s bare skull to configure her smile. Out of a mathematical conceit the Italian writer Paolo Giordano has drawn a mesmerizing portrait of a young man and woman whose injured natures draw them together over the years and inevitably pull them apart. ![]()
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