At first, I was somewhat tempted by a work whose author was preparing a doctorate in theoretical physics ... And yet, I was immediately seduced by this book, and his eyes on his two characters, especially Alice Young made handicapped by a skiing accident anorexic, and Mattia, gifted mathematics traumatized by his responsibility in the disappearance of his mentally handicapped twin sister. The lives of the two anti-heroes will not stop cross from adolescence, in a complex and ambiguous relationship that is sometimes difficult to understand.
This romantic starting point could rush into a terrible marshmallow rose water, but no, and this is in my opinion this explains the success of this book Giordano manages to deal with serious subjects even tragic -l ' adolescence and cruelties, anorexia, and especially loneliness and the inability to open up to the "normal" world - without falling into pathos, through relatively short chapters and very eloquent life scenes.
It's beautiful, harsh and bitter, a book that is certainly worth stopping to plunge into it a few hours in a few simple reality to deal with.