Solo Dasgupta,

Dasgupta, Rana

ISBN 10: 8172238231 / ISBN 13: 9788172238230

Published by HarperCollins India, 2009

About this Item

GOOD+ hardcover in VG jacket. 2009. SIGNED by AUTHOR on title page w/NO inscription. LIGHT STAIN to front text edge (only), other wise pages clean. LIght scuffs. Solid. Jacket clean and solid. Unclipped. 357 pp.

Seller Inventory # L09693

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Solo Dasgupta,
• Publisher: HarperCollins India
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8172238231
• ISBN 13: 9788172238230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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

From the Back Cover

Solo is a wonder an exploration of memory, a window on a country and region mysterious to the West even in the twentieth century, a keen study of human love and failure. Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian
With imaginative audacity and lyrical brilliance, Rana Dasgupta paints a portrait of a century through the story of a hundred-year-old blind Bulgarian man in this remarkable and dazzling debut novel.
In the first movement of Solo we meet Ulrich, the son of a railroad engineer. His passion for chemistry leads him to Berlin, but his studies are cut short when 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, Solo is a virtuoso work.
A novel utterly refreshing in its blunt acknowledgment that thoroughgoing realism involves escaping reality as much as constructing it . . . What makes Mr. Dasgupta s adventurous storytelling especially rewarding is the way he carefully integrates tiny details from Ulrich s drab life into his fantasy, transfiguring them like hay spun into gold . . . Invigorating. Wall Street Journal
Rana Dasgupta was born in England. His debut collection, Tokyo Cancelled, was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; he won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Solo. Having lived in France, Malaysia, and the United States, he now makes his home in Delhi.

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