blurb:
A prime number is a solitary thing: it can be only divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are also alone with their personal tragedies. As a child Alice`s overbearing father drover her first to skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia she recognizes a kindred spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowwhere to be found.
As they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined. But then a chance sighting of a woman who could be Mattia`s sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface.
my personal review:
The gravimetry of melancholia! This book was irritating, deeply touching and fascinating.
Alice is a very withdrawn girl and she desperatly longs for being like a popular girl in her class.
She is never happy with herself. Sometimes she is so strangely selfish, and sometimes it`s seems she is not selfish but totally incapable to communicate her wishes, her desires. Sometimes it seems she is totally aimless and stumble into the world of adulthood.
Mattia is not that selfish. He is very sensible, but he lives in his own world of mathematics. There is no place left for feelings, except that horrible secret which is connected to his early childhood. The relationship to his parents is affected by unspoken words, not expressed emotions and misunderstanding for his deep affection to mathemathics.
The relationship between these solitary souls is a still acceptance of the strangeness of their minds.
There are emotions between them, but they couldn`t communicate it. And Alice seems to be caught in her anorexia. It was unpossible for me to understand her and her feelings, but it was quite fascinating how cruel a person can be to herself and others, without wanting it.
Mattia is more captured by his formulas, he tries to press the world in formulas. Sometimes I thought that he tries to decipher the rule behind emotions, behind relationships but cannot find it.
Later, when he has done his studies, he looks for a new aim but struggle to find one. Then it`s the first time he decide to accept some things without rule and formulas.
This book is a crazy study of people who live like a lonely satellite and who by each contact begin to stumble and lost their path. And in their solitude, it`s nearly impossible that their could find a way together.
I`ve read this book on an intercontinental flight and I couldn`t lay it down for long.
So I would give this book four of five tubs.
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