The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Paolo Giordano · 2008 CE · Novel · Italian · Contemporary

Two damaged children, a girl with a crippled leg and eating disorder and a boy who harms himself, grow up in near contact, never quite able to touch. Giordano's first novel won the Premio Strega in 2008.

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