Paolo Gioradano's debut novel has sold over a million copies around the world and earned him Italy's premier literary prize, the Premio Strega. Now, finally, we've earned our taste of his celebrated book here in the states. The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a book of striking beauty and disturbing content, including anorexia, cutting, loneliness and guilt. It's a coming-of-age story in the most awkward and lovely tradition, and its two protagonists are destined to win hearts here just as easily as they have abroad.
Giordano is a young author - only 27 - and his acclaim is all the more impressive given that he's a physicist by trade. He'll be here in conversation with his editor and now head of her own eponymous imprint, Pamela Dorman.
News of Note
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Written by Sarah
Wednesday, 08 July 2009
by Mohammed Hanif (Vintage, $15.00)
If your idea of summer reading is more Kurt Vonnegut than Candace Bushnell, this is the novel for you.
If your idea of summer reading is more Kurt Vonnegut than Candace Bushnell, this is the novel for you.