SOLO - Rana DasguptaCondition: Pre Loved 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 through 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

Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong

a Jewish pig farmer

Unashamedly violent when the need arises

After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America

and misanthropic—in short

but has lived insulated from its true horrors

are at the center of this dark and understated novel

Churchill's Italian dining companions are rushed out of the building and his doctor called

And her parents have a secret that threatens to unravel everything

monumental productivity

He sees lost souls who want something from him

and after years of trying