Paolo Giordano

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January 01, 1982 in Turin, Italy

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Paolo Giordano is a professional physicist and is currently working on a doctorate in particle physics. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his first novel, took Italy by storm where it has sold over a million copies. It is being translated into twenty languages and has sold all over the world.

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Average rating: 3.52 · 7,265 ratings · 1,246 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel 3.52 avg rating — 7,254 ratings — published 2008 — 77 editions	My rating:
	disegno dell'architettura funebre: Napoli-Poggio Reale, il Cimitero delle 366 fosse e il Sepolcreto dei colerici 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Beyond The Margin: Readings In Italian Americana 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Full of life by John Fante, Alessandra Osti (Translator), Paolo Giordano (Preface) 3.99 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1952 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sergio Albeverio (Editor), Denise Andrey, Paolo Giordano 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Italian Ethnics--Their Languages, Literature, and Lives: Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Chi by American Italian Historical Association, Paolo Giordano, Fred L. Gardaphe 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	In viaggio contromano by Michael Zadoorian (Goodreads Author), Claudia Tarolo (Translator), Paolo Giordano (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 920 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Solitude of Prime Numbers 12-copy floor Display by NOT A BOOK, Paolo Giordano 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel

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“You'll get used to it. In the end you won't even notice it anymore," he said.
"How is that possible? It will always be there, right before my eyes."
"Exactly," said Mattia. "Which is precisely why you won't see it anymore.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel

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“They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny is to coalesce at some point in space and time.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel

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