The Solitude of Prime Numbers
- Release Date
- September 10, 2010
- Director
- Saverio Costanzo
- Cast
- Alba Rohrwacher , Luca Marinelli , Martina Albano , Arianna Nastro , Tommaso Neri , Vittorio Lomartire
- Runtime
- 118
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Paolo Giordano , Saverio Costanzo , Filippo Timi
Summary
Paolo Giordano ’s deeply touching debut novel immediately thrusts the reader into the lives of two individuals, at the moment when each of their young lives takes a sharp turn toward painful solitude: Alice has been crippled in a childhood skiing accident, Mattia is consumed by guilt after playing an unintended but key role in his twin sister’s disappearance. Upon meeting in their early teens, they develop a frequently uncomfortable yet enveloping friendship. What follows is a beautiful and affecting account of the ways in which seemingly inconsequential decisions reverberate so intensely as to change a life forever. Translated from Italian, this is a book about communication: in lacking a facility for self-expression, our stunted protagonists exist almost solely, and safely, in their own minds. Despite its heavy subject matter, it reads easily, due in part to the almost seamless translation. A quietly explosive ending completes the novel in just the fashion it was started, as an intimate psychological portrait of two “prime numbers”—together alone and alone together.
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