The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano Translator: Anne Milano Appel

Translator: Anne Milano Appel

She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil

Translator: Asa Yoneda

she has resigned herself to brutal treatment at the hands of her cruel husband and the carping of her despotic mother-in-law

she tastes the independence that she has yearned for

The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano Translator: Anne Milano AppelA 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 also move on their own axes, 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 recognises a kindred spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his