Solo
A India, Historical, Contemporary book. Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different...
With an imaginative audacity and lyrical brilliance that puts him in the company of David Mitchell and Alexander 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 daydreamsand 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...
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780547397085 / 547397089
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He was like the other half of myself,' says Boris...Ulrich says, 'You haven't lost {him}, you know. I don't know if it helps to say that. I lost a friend once myself, and I know how it goes.'He'll find his way inside you, and you'll carry him onward. Behind your heartbeat, you'll hear another one, faint and out of step. People will say you are speaking his opinons, or your hair has turned like his.'There are no more facts about him -- that part is over. Now is the time for essential things...Gradually you'll grow older than him, and love him as your... Ties are straightened and expressions banished. Rana Dasgupta, Solo // Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way. Rana Dasgupta, Solo //
Solo is a novel by Rana Dasgupta that is actually two novels- movement one and movement two, the life and the daydreams, the reality and the illusion, or maybe the illusion and the reality. Somewhere for me, Solo combined the lyrical existentialism from the cobbled streets of Kafka's Prague with the detached, disjointed sweep of Tulse... The book is page turner. Consisting of two very different "movements" or novellas, it centers around a 100 year old Bulgarian man, whose life and imaginations are also a peek into the former communist country's history. The first "movement" is very much in the realist style which rich journey into the history of chemistry and music... Despite the title SOLO, this is a book that focuses on duality: reality versus daydreams, science versus music, communism versus oligarchy, success versus failure. Its an audacious book, a highly imaginative one, and certainly an enigmatic one.Given its duality, its no surprise that Im of two minds about it: in many places, I admired...
