Rash After Waxing, Legs

Wow! This book has really pinched. Revisionism

When it comes to numbers, it often creates an aura of mystery and unleashes an almost awe of those who dare speak, although here, the numbers, got to do very little.
The solitude that is mentioned in the title is that of two prime numbers Alice and Matt, whose story takes place over about two decades (1983 to 2007.) Fragile girl tormented by her eating disorder, his lone genius and damn, almost a James Dean of mathematics, which carries the burden of guilt for the death of Michael, his sister with a disability. Alice and Matthew never become friends weave a true loving relationship, why are compared to the twin primes: so close and similar and yet never really intended not to bind their lives.
The plot, though appreciable, contains too many tragedies to be taken seriously; also the many oddities that fill the book take away credibility and suggest that the author has seen a bit 'too many American films. Examples are the passage in which Alice remembers when, as a child, was the angel on snow (typically overseas practice) with his father, and the choice of a nanny-maid of Latin origin employed by the wealthy Della Rocca. The South American nannies are credible in America, where the flow of migration from Mexico is constant, but not in Italy and more during the nineties, a time when barely begun to arrive early immigrants, from Africa or other up from the East certainly not from Latin America. Pure science fiction are also the biology laboratories in an Italian high school, that the book would even be equipped with microscopes in 1991.
Another obvious flaw is the limited vocabulary and limited the maximum - and only - exclamation of surprise "UAO" (not an error, use your "UAO" and not "wow", the correct form) and the verb stapled is often inappropriately used to describe any action, a little 'how did the Smurfs Smurf with the verb.
not be better with the development of subplots that are basted and then abandoned to their fate, without significance in the primary. It 's the case of Dennis, the homosexual friend of the protagonist, whose story can not find a reason for being than to do a filler. Dennis appears next to the teenager Mattia eclipse then suddenly without infamy and without praise and - especially - without adding anything to the main plot. Since its presentation and the pages that are dedicated, we would expect that this character rivertisse a key role in the affair, which does not happen: it seems that the author has placed with the intention of giving him a major role and then forget what it was during the narration.
When I happened to hand this book - winner of the Premio Strega - I hoped that was not what it seemed. Instead it turned out to be just what I feared: librucoli another of our house. Too bad.