When she meets Mattia she recognizes a kindred, tortured 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 nowhere to be found. As a child, Alice’s overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. Alice and Mattia, too, move on their own axis, alone with their personal tragedies. From the author of Heaven and Earth, a sensational novel about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone elseĪ prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one: it never truly fits with another.
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