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100			_aDasgupta, Rana _983718
245			_aSolo _cRana Dasgupta
250			_aWinner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2010. 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.
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bHarperCollins Publishers _c01/04/2010
300			_a368 _bPaperback
365			_aINR _b299.00
650			_aModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) _983719
650			_aWinner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best Book 2010 and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2010. _983720
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952			_w2015-09-01 _pCA00013970 _r2017-11-28 _40 _00 _bCB _m3 _10 _o823.92/DAS _d2015-09-01 _70 _2ddc _yBK _s2017-11-07 _l18 _aCB
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