The loneliness of prime numbers

We make decisions in a matter of seconds and then we carry the consequences for the rest of our lives. The protagonists of the novel have literally tested the truth of this statement: Alice and Mattia made a bad decision when they were kids... She didn't want to become a ski racer and he wasn't going to take his mentally disabled sister to a classmate's party. During adolescence, they find their place in the world even more difficult than most of their peers. They could find them side by side if only they could get over the traumas of the past. "Reading the novel, we realize, that people are often prisoners of their unhappiness and their loneliness essentially by choice, or rather, not because, that they wouldn't know, Alice Flemr, https://www.iliteratura.cz/ „Paolo Giordano ve svém debutu pečlivě boří mýtus šťastného a bezstarostného dětství. If there are happy moments in his narrative, they are vague and fleeting and relate to the protagonists' earliest years: remembering little family rituals: Alice ties her father's tie, Mattio's father blows in his children's faces to cool them down. To je však příliš málo na to, aby z toho člověk mohl později čerpat sílu a útěchu.“ - Alice Flemrová, https://www.iliteratura.cz/ Paolo Giordano: The Loneliness of Prime Numbers | Translation by Alice Flemrová | Read by Anna Kameníková and Petr Uhlík | Directed by Jan Herget | Sound, editing and mastering by Vratislav Hubička | Music by Jonáš Rosůlek | Recorded in the studio of NAPA Records s. r. o. | Graphic design by Jana Lhotáková | Production by Kateřina Višinská | Published by Euromedia Group, a. does - The recording is based on the book: Paolo Giordano The Solitude of Prime Numbers, LA SOLITUDINE DEI NUMERI PRIMI, Copyright © 2008 Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S. p. A., Milano, Translation © Alice Flemrová, 2009, Published by Euromedia Group, k. does - Odeon, 2015.