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Solo
by Dasgupta, Rana
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0007182155
- ISBN 13
- 9780007182152
- Seller
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Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HarperCollins Publishers Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Synopsis
With an imaginative audacity and lyrical brilliance that puts him in the company of David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon, Rana Dasgupta paints a portrait of a century though the story of a hundred-year-old blind Bulgarian man in a first novel that announces the arrival of an exhilarating new voice in fiction. In the first movement of Solo we meet Ulrich, the son of a railroad engineer, who has two great passions: the violin and chemistry. Denied the first by his father, he leaves for the Berlin of Einstein and Fritz Haber to study the latter. His studies are cut short when his father’s fortune evaporates, and he must return to Sofia to look after his parents. He never leaves Bulgaria again. Except in his daydreams—and it is those dreams we enter in the volatile second half of the book. In a radical leap from past to present, from life lived to life imagined, Dasgupta follows Ulrich’s fantasy children, born of communism but making their way into a post-communist world of celebrity and violence. Intertwining science and heartbreak, the old world and the new, the real and imagined, Solo is a virtuoso work. “Utterly unforgettable in its humanity.” — The Guardian
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better World Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39994279-20
- Title
- Solo
- Author
- Dasgupta, Rana
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0007182155
- ISBN 13
- 9780007182152
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- This edition first published
- 2010
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