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Numbers (original: La solitudine dei numeri primi) is a novel by
Italian writer Paolo Giordano, published in 2008. It also won
the 2008 Strega Prize.  A film version of the novel, with minor
adaptations and directed by Saverio Costanzo, was released in
2010.  Plot Summary[edit]  The novel narrates the childhood and
young adult life of a boy, Mattia, and a girl, Alice, both of
whom had exposure to traumatic situations when they were both 8
years old. Alice bears the physical scars of a terrible skiing
accident which nearly killed her. Mattia bears the emotional
scars of having lost his disabled twin sister, after leaving her
alone in a park in order to attend the birthday party of a
friend. These traumas manifest themselves again physically later
in both of their lives, with Alice being anorexic, and Mattia
cutting himself. At school, both are outsiders, much as prime
numbers are outs