![]() ![]() The novel shows them navigating the hardships of growing up and trying to find their place as well as themselves. In the process both become quite odd and lonely which attracts them to one another. ![]() While Mattia starts cutting his hands as self-punishment for leaving his sister behind, Alice becomes anorexic. For Alice it is a skiing accident in which she suffers a leg injury that will never heal and makes her walk with a limp for the rest of her life. As he returns to the park, his sister is missing, never to be found again. For Mattia it is him leaving his mentally handicapped twin sister behind in a park to enjoy going to a friend's birthday on his own for once. Both lives are defined by one traumatic incident in their youth. Paolo Giordano's novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers follows the life of the two protagonists Mattia and Alice, who grow up in Italy. ![]()
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