Recently, the Shanghai Translation Publishing House launched Paul Giordano's latest novel, "Summer of Backlight". "Summer of Backlight" continues the narrative characteristics and protagonist characteristics of "The Loneliness of Prime Numbers", starting from the protagonist's boyhood and slowly unfolding the whole story. In addition to the topic of growth, the book discusses more contemporary propositions, such as extreme environmentalism, surrogacy, etc. It is reported that "The Loneliness of Prime Numbers" has also been updated in version.
Paul Giordano
Paolo Giordano is a well-known Italian writer and doctor of particle physics. At the age of 25, he won the Strëgar Literary Award, Italy's highest literary award, for his debut novel "The Loneliness of Prime Numbers", becoming the youngest winner ever for the award. He is also the author of novels such as "The Human Body", "Black and Silver", and "Summer of Backlight".
"Summer of Backlight" paul Giardano (translated by Du Ying)
"Backlight Summer" is full of Italian natural style, telling the growth story of Teresa and three boys who met when they were young, and their entanglement of love and friendship in the next twenty years, the core plot is Teresa and Bane's love, and Bane's uninhibited life.
Every summer of girls' generation, Teresa spends the summer at Spezia's grandmother's house. One night, through the window, she saw three older boys take off their clothes and sneak into their swimming pool. Bain, Nicola and Tomasso, who are the "boys of the little farm" nearby, are young, pure and full of desire. Teresa does not know that the encounter of this night will change her life, and the fates of the four people will be entangled with love and competition, ideals and disillusionment for the next twenty years.
Teresa is infatuated with Bane, who, despite her family's objections, lives a utopian life with Bane and other young people with naturalistic ideals on a small farm far away from the hustle and bustle; they want to get rid of the shackles of material life, but under the coercion of reality, they will eventually face the disillusionment of hope. In order to protect the olive tree that will be cut down, Bane follows the protagonist of "The Baron in the Tree" and climbs to live on the tree; in search of a land that has not been polluted by humans, he wanders to the lava ice caves of Iceland; he has been obsessed with everything from heaven to earth, and has made irreparable mistakes, with the innate momentum of men, desperate.
The Loneliness of Prime Numbers, Paul Giordano (translated by Wen Zheng)
The Solitude of Prime Numbers won the Stregga Prize, Italy's highest literary award. The novel set a best-selling record for the most astonishing debut in the history of Italian publishing, selling more than 1.2 million copies in two years, and was sold in 36 countries in more than 100 weeks, selling 5 million copies across Europe. In early 2011, Shanghai Translation introduced and published Chinese Simplified edition of copyright, and this edition is the 10th anniversary edition of "The Loneliness of Prime Numbers".
Prime numbers, also known as prime numbers, are an important mathematical concept that is a number that cannot be divisible by any natural number except 1 and itself. Prime numbers are solitary, however, some prime numbers have a twin prime number, and in between them, only an even number exists.
Mattia is a young mathematical genius who believes he is one of prime numbers, and his middle school classmate Alice is his twin prime number. They all have painful pasts, are equally lonely, and are equally unable to get closer to other people. From adolescence to adulthood, their lives continue to intersect, striving to remove the obstacles that exist between each other, influencing each other and separating from each other, like twins, close to each other but never close. With delicate brushstrokes, Paul Giordano recreates the growing pains of the novel's characters and their efforts to find their place in life.
Nandu reporter Zhu Rongting intern Tan Wanying