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Solo

By Rana Dasgupta

 650.00 inclusive of all taxes

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About the book

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 this discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists might 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 these hapless parrots, he has any wisdom to leave to the world, one-hundred-year-old Ulrich embarks on an epic armchair journey through the twists and turns of his country’s turbulent century – and through his own century of lost love and failed chemistry – and finds his way to an astonishing epiphany of redemption and enlightenment. Set in Bulgaria, a country that, like the author himself, has belonged sometimes to Asia and sometimes to Europe, Solo is a book about lost roots, broken traditions and wasted ambitions – and the depths of lyricism by which human beings overcome those things.

Pages: 368

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Language: English

Rana Dasgupta

Rana Dasgupta is the author of the short story collection, Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (UK) and the Hutch Crossword Book Award (India), and the novel Solo, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2010 for Best Book. His non-fiction work, Capital, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2015 and the Ondaatje Prize in 2015.

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