~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize - 2010
How does a broken man pass down his fragile legacy? Solo paints a portrait of a century through the story of Ulrich, a hundred-year-old blind Bulgarian man who has witnessed his country's turbulent past, the Crimean wars, a Communist government, capitalist factions, the horrors of World War, as well as personal struggles and financial ruin . . .
Intertwining science and music, the Old World and the New, the real and the imagined, Solo paints the portrait of a century with imaginative audacity and lyrical brilliance.
“Solo is a wonder. It is an exploration of memory, a window on a country and region mysterious to the West even in the twentieth century, as well as a keen study of human love and failure.” -- Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian, The Swan Thieves, and The Shadow Land