Alice had a skiing accident, broke her leg and is forever labelled a cripple because of her limp. It is ostensibly a coming-of-age novel about two lonely children who had traumatic incidents in their childhoods. Add to that the fact that Paolo Giordano is the right side of 30 and that writing is, for him, but a hobby (he's actually a particle physicist) and you'll understand why I was tightening up my laces to give his pretentiously titled tome a good kicking.īut actually it's a very accomplished book and deserves all its success. Anyone whose first novel sells more than a million copies worldwide, and goes on to win Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega, is bound to turn the rest of us slightly green. I was fully expecting, purely for reasons of professional envy, to dislike this book.
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