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Solo
Solo
hardback
Published:
5 March, 2009
hardback
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Description
The highly anticipated new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Tokyo Cancelled. Solo recounts the life and daydreams of a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria. Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in a recent catastrophe. Astonished by their discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists could record what remained of the lost language. But the parrots, already traumatised by the devastation they had recently witnessed, died on the way. Wondering if, unlike the hapless parrots, he has any wisdom to leave to the world, Ulrich embarks on an epic armchair journey through a century of violent politics, forbidden music, lost love and failed chemistry, finding his way eventually to an astonishing epiphany of tenderness and enlightenment.
Prizes
Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2010 and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book 2010.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780007182145 |
| ISBN10 | 0007182147 |
| Number Of Pages | 368 |
| Item Weight | 697 g |
| Product Dimensions | 160 x 38 x 224 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Fourth Estate |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition; 1st printing. |
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Media Reviews
'A novel of exceptional, astonishing strangeness, Solo confirms Rana Dasgupta as the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation.' SALMAN RUSHDIE
Author's Bio
Rana Dasgupta was born in England in 1971, and grew up in Cambridge. Having lived in France, Malaysia and the US, he moved to Delhi in 2001. His first book, Tokyo Cancelled, was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.