- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781409082385
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781409082385
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
A beautiful and affecting account of the ways in which seemingly inconsequential decisions reverberate so intensely as to change a life forever... This is a book about communication... an intimate psychological portrait of two 'prime numbers' - together alone and alone together. A beautiful and affecting account of the ways in which seemingly inconsequential decisions reverberate so intensely as to change a life forever... This is a book about communication... an intimate psychological portrait of two 'prime numbers' - together alone and alone together
Booklist
A gently moving and insightful read
Daily Express
A very accomplished book... A melancholic, but strangely beautiful, read. Shaun Whiteside's translation is exemplary and the acute descriptions of teenage competitiveness, angst and aspiration bring to mind Alan Warner's writing
Guardian
An elegant fable...its recurring themes of loneliness and longing shimmer through trim and supple prose
Prospect Magazine
Cerebral yet touching debut... The novel's bleak subject matter is rendered almost beautiful by Giordano's spare, intense focus on his two characters
Publishers Weekly
Genius... everybody can find in Giordano's book a small piece of himself
Il Giornale
In clear, heartbreakingly precise prose, the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Premio Strega (the Italian Man Booker) explores how trauma and guilt can capsize emotional stability and leave the vulnerable in a wash of unease and loss...a stunning achievement
Daily Mail
Moving... masterful... elegantly discreet
The Times Literary Supplement
The story is mesmerising
Good Housekeeping
The year's most important début
La Repubblica