The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano and the pressure to excel

and the pressure to excel is at times too much for Elena

Translator: Anne Milano Appel

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

ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside

Translator: Asa Yoneda

The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano and the pressure to excelA 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