La solitudine dei numeri primi

Damn it, what a great writer, even at just 26 years old! Andrea Camilleri. It seems that a single day in their childhood decided the course of their entire lives. On such a day, Alice forever lost her carefree spirit and trust in her stubborn father. Mattia, on the other hand, lost his sister at the age of six, whose need for help he had disregarded just once, for a few hours. Since then, he has been tormented by guilt that he reveals to no one. Seven years later, Mattia and Alice meet at high school. The attraction between them seems irresistible. Each recognizes their own loneliness in the other. Alice is the only person to whom Mattia dares to reveal his pain, even just once. And conversely, she would never ask anyone but him to remove the tattoo from her skin, with which she wanted to cover her inner wounds. But as the years go by, the obstacles that they unconsciously place in each other's way grow higher and higher. Until they must make a decision. In a language that is both clear and poetically compelling, Paolo Giordano tells the story of Alice and Mattia, who stand close together like twin primes yet remain separated by the tiniest distance. He depicts complex states of the soul with such precision that they become tangible and deeply resonate with us. Paolo Giordano finds unforgettable images for the twisted paths through which the dramas of childhood continue to affect us. His prose magically transforms pain into solace.