The solitude of prime numbers-rewiew★★★★☆

Good morning and good Monday to all!

Today, as I had anticipated, I review The solitude of prime numbers, a book that I think is a real pearl, by Paolo Giordano.

Published in 2008 by Mondadori, the book received the accolades Strega (most prestigious literary award in Italy and known in Europe) and Campiello (which is delivered to Venice, the Doge's Palace and the Gran Teatro La Fenice).

The stories are set in Turin between the eighties and the two thousand, twenty years of storytelling, which is divided into chapters also divided into years or sometimes decades.

It is a Buildungsroman (remember, caused by the build + roman) records so that the changes (both physical and psychological) of the two protagonists in the course of their existence and continuous transformation of them, if you can define it like this, report.

Paolo Giordano, born in 1982, is a writer and Italian physicist. At twenty-six is ​​the youngest author to be awarded the Premio Strega, and also won, in addition to this, the literary prize Merck Serono (acknowledgment, essays and novels that have connections between science and literature). In 2008 The solitude of prime numbers was the best selling book in Italy, with more than a million copies sold.

Plot:

Alice is a seven year old girl forced by her father to attend ski school. And a morning of thick fog, separated from his companions, she gets wets. Humiliated, she tries to get down, but ends off the track and breaks a leg.

Mattia is instead a very intelligent child, but he has a sister, Michela, delayed. Her presence humiliates Mattia in front of his comrades, and so, the first time a companion invites them both to his birthday, Mattia leaves Michela in the park, with the promise that she will wait. But in that park, the mate will be lost forever.

The lives of Mattia and Alice will cross, and become teenagers, young people and then adults.

"He knew all the violence

It was enclosed in the accuracy of a detail. "

"He and Alice were like twin primes.

Near,

but not enough to really touching them. "

I think this is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read.

First of all, it is not a banal story. Whatever they tell you, and as you might like, The fault in our stars (better known as "Okey? Okey.") Is a story very, very trivial. From the first pages you understand all the history that still need to read and it was patently obvious that one of two died. Because, nowadays, living the ideal that if at least one person in a book dies, then it is not a drama. Well, Paolo Giordano is able to demonstrate that it is not: in his book, nobody died of two main protagonists, namely Mattia and Alice, but still a something dramatic. A dramatic novel, to be such, must not only have a sad ending, but must have structure, characters and environments that advises throughout the book, an atmosphere of sadness, and even rejection of life, and with this book the author It succeeded in full.

It 'a book that explores the life with rawness and sincerity, based on the life of these two boys, who were threatened by life as a child. The reading goes on sliding, there are no obstacles, but from page 152, right in the middle of the whole book, which has 304, there are thirty pages boring and treated also with more superficial than any other, but, a once passed, the story resumes with the same smoothness earlier. I loved how that story because it is not so heartbreaking, but leaves you shocked already on the first pages, when I was wondering what I was reading (if you try to give it a look you'll understand). It is not a story of some kind of originality, but in its simplicity, Giordano was able to give a touch, just enough, for me to like a lot of drama.

The book instead I liked that certain issues are treated very lightly, almost casually. When are these arguments, in a story, it is right, and that also must be thoroughly investigated. I realize, however, that, with these supplements reflections, the book would be too long and may have become boring, so even that's right. I gave it four stars for this reason, besides the fact of the thirty pages of boring, but I was undecided whether to give four or five, so I'm four, but count them as well as four thirty.

I almost forgot! It 'a serious reading and challenging, so avoid to give it to your grandson of ten years, rather a box of Lego.

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