{"product_id":"0143177443-the_solitude_of_prime_numbers","title":"The Solitude of Prime Numbers","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.\u003cbr\u003eA three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that country’s prestigious Premio Strega award.\u003cbr\u003eA 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, too, move on their own axis, 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 recognizes a kindred, tortured 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.\u003cbr\u003eThese two irreversible episodes mark Alice and Mattia’s lives for ever, and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem intertwined: they are divisible only by themselves and each other. But the shadow of the lost twin haunts their relationship, until a chance sighting by Alice of a woman who could be Mattia’s sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface.\u003cbr\u003eA meditation on loneliness and love, \u003cb\u003eThe Solitude of Prime Numbers\u003c\/b\u003e asks, can we ever truly be whole when we’re in love with another? And when Mattia is asked to choose between human love and his professional love — of mathematics — which will make him more complete?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Penguin Canada","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":48524960661694,"sku":"0143177443-4","price":18.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/41whdroT1QL._SL500.jpg?v=1785957676","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0143177443-the_solitude_of_prime_numbers","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}