The Solitude of Prime Numbers, (Paperback)

from oldblack

I found this story of two people who have suffered traumatic childhood incidents to be excellent. Their later behaviour is clearly strongly affected by these childhood experiences in a way that isn't fully explained and yet we understand. The interaction of these two disturbed people was fascinat...

from siafl

This book is not as good as all its accolades would suggest. I don't find much of a story in it, so at the end I am left wondering what it really is about. However, there are some very nice touches throughout, not the least because the author is a scientist and he draws parallels from mathematics...

from DetailMuse

The Solitude of Prime Numbers opens in the childhoods of an Italian girl and boy, Alice and Mattia, where separate traumatic incidents alter their lives. Isolation is a factor in the incidents, and is such a continuing fact in their lives that Mattia likens himself to a prime number. Despite beco...

from LynnB

Alice and Mattia both suffer traumas in their childhood, and both carry the scars with them: Alice is anorexic and Mattia cuts his hands repeatedly. As adoloscents, they don't fit in, but meet and form a friendship. They part ways as young adults, but remain in each other's thoughts. This is a st...

from KimHooperWrites

I read this as part of Book Riot's Read Harder challenge (it satisfies the "book that was originally published in another language" requirement). It's a good story. I'd give it 3.5 stars if they'd let me. It didn't blow me away, but it's a good story. It reminded me of "Perks of Being a Wallflowe...