- Life change events, Fiction, Solitude, Friendship
Misfits Alice and Mattia bond as teens over shared experiences of suffering before mathematically gifted Mattia accepts a research position that takes him far away, a situation that restores their isolation before they meet by chance years later.
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Contemporary, grave, spare and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Book on Demand Ltd., Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, Shanghai yi wen chu ban she
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- cat, Dutch, Italian, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9788804589655
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