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

Translator: Asa Yoneda

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

They must follow the café's strict rules

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