3 best books by Paolo Giordano

The case of Paolo giordano, along with that of the also dazzling Guillermo Martinez, serve to confirm that science also has a place in literature. Both are authors who have come from seemingly distant spaces such as Physics or Mathematics. And in both cases his books are often submerged from formulas or concepts to propose suggestive plots from their analytical and deductive side to a thousand and one unsuspected aspects of the human. Because both authors cultivate very different genres from that creative cradle of distant universes.

But of course, this link is not a strictly current formula despite the two examples of recent authors. The already deceased Umberto Eco He already flirted with mathematics from his most philosophical position in essays or in the novel "Foucault's Pendulum." And so, understood everything as an approach between logic and rational, the hodgepodge makes more sense.

But going back to Giordano, beyond that round work between the mathematical and the romantic that was The solitude of prime numbers, we find more stories that deviate from that convergent line between areas so polarized to enter very human stories inserted in plots of maximum tension with undeniable philosophical connotations.

Top 3 recommended books by Paolo Giordano

The solitude of prime numbers

Infertile by definition. Unproductive for any formulation. Prime numbers observe others between helplessness and the assumption of their destiny delivered to oblivion. Sometimes people are those prime numbers that, despite everything, could add up but whose emotional charge keeps them tight, impassive to new options.

And that's when the loneliness of that sentence that turns the souls of Alice and Mattia into those figures unable to express more. With the romantic and melancholic hint of loneliness as an inescapable condition for defeated souls, beauty makes its way, as so often from sadness, from the melancholic feeling that everything could be otherwise. It would only take Alice and Mattia to be able to undo the knots of their past. Because prime numbers are not made, they are born. And childhood is that moment after being born in which it is marked, without realizing it, what you can become.

The Loneliness of Prime Numbers, by Paolo Giordano

Like family

The protagonist of this novel tells us about his marriage to Nora. The relationship is particularly marked, however, by an external presence that covers everything. This is Mrs. A, in charge of the most common domestic vicissitudes. But when Mrs. A stops accompanying them for her sudden death, everything will change radically.

From his perspective, we face a sense of unreality, a vision of family life strange to both of us. The differences become more and more potent and only the common child is seen as the nexus. But not everything can be put into the single parenting basket in a relationship. And they both know it or rather they intuit it, they guess it as the distant focus of a train that is approaching with the parsimony of past due days, but with the certainty of its arrival sooner or later.

A family portrait full of perspectives on everyday life, the peeling of love and the hardly beatable feeling of failure. Faced with the inevitable wear and tear of the relationship, the looks only give them back that loneliness of someone who is increasingly convinced that they no longer belong to the same place as the other person they are with.

Like family, Paolo Giordano

The human body

As we can all guess, after a great novel, the author looks into that abyss of expectations. Even more so for a young writer capable of reaching millions of readers with a first film.

And yet in this story Paolo came out with the dignity of a writer convinced of his vocation. Perhaps precisely because of his youth capable of facing any challenge. We traveled to the most conflictive Afghanistan to accompany a group of young soldiers destined for a base in the midst of continuous attacks. In the midst of each new fight the boys do what they can to survive. But the novel is more moved by the moments inside the barracks, by the meditations of each character, of their past, of the reasons that have led them there.

The idea of ​​more than possible death in any of the skirmishes gives each interaction between the protagonists and any of their revelations to the reader or even to one of their companions of that intense weight, perfect for the author to give an intensity and a maximum emotionality during the action.

The human body, by Paolo Giordano
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