Paolo Giordano
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level." -The New York Times
From the author of Heaven and Earth, a sensational novel about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else
A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are both "primes"—misfits...
From the author of Heaven and Earth, a sensational novel about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else
A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are both "primes"—misfits...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After losing the future he imagined for himself, a writer sets out in search of connection and purpose at a tipping point with climate change and global conflict, in this breathtaking novel from the Strega Prize-winning author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers. In late 2015, Paolo feels his life coming apart: While his wife, Lorenza, has decided to give up on pregnancy after years of trying, he clings to the dream of becoming a father, not just a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Un nuevo virus irrumpe en un país lejano, aunque no tan lejano. La Tierra se ha vuelto pequeña. Día tras día, billones de impulsos digitales transportan la información a la velocidad de la luz de un punto a otro del planeta; infinidad de aviones surcan los cielos, borrando fronteras a su paso y trasladando sin pausa a millares de personas; y, a menor velocidad, miles de toneladas de mercancías se mueven en todas direcciones en un incesante intercambio...
4) Like family
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When a young married couple hire a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy, they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A--maid, nanny, and confidante--becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. But the delicate fabric of the young family comes undone when Signora...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers Every year, after her school in Turin closes for the summer holidays, Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia and endures weeks of relentless heat and boredom. But everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door:...
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