The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Winner of the Premio Strega 2008. Nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2010, category Preis der Jugendlichen
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| Verlag | Transworld |
| Auflage | 2010 |
| Seiten | 384 |
| Format | 17,8 cm |
| A-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 220 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Übersetzer | Shaun Whiteside |
| ISBN-10 | 0552775983 |
| EAN | 9780552775984 |
| Bestell-Nr | 55277598EA |
Mattia und Alice werden in ihrer Kindheit beide durch schreckliche Ereignisse traumatisiert. Als sie sich Jahre später an ihrer Schule kennenlernen, scheint zwischen ihnen eine Anziehungskraft zu bestehen, die beiden hilft, ihre Außenseiterrolle in der Schule besser zu bewältigen. Doch die inneren Verletzungen können nicht verhindern, dass jeder von Ihnen weiterhin in seiner eigenen Welt lebt.
Kurzbeschreibung:
A stunning début novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.
Klappentext:
A 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 mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowhere to be found.
These two irreversible episodes mark Alice and Mattia's lives for ever, and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined. But then a chance sighting of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface.
A meditation on loneliness and love, The Solitude of Prime Numbers asks, can we ever truly be whole when we're in love with another?
Rezension:
Moving...masterful...elegantly discreet Times Literary Supplement