Solo - Couverture souple

Dasgupta, Rana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007182155 ISBN 13 : 9780007182152

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize.

The 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rana Dasgupta was born in 1971, and grew up in Cambridge. He worked for a marketing consultancy in London and New York for a few years before moving to Delhi to write. His first novel, ‘Tokyo Cancelled’, a thirteen-part story cycle, was published in 2005 to widespread acclaim and has been translated into nine languages.

Dasgupta now lives permanently in Delhi, and writes for several periodicals, including the ‘Guardian’, ’New Statesman’ and BBC radio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007182155
• ISBN 13: 9780007182152
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible