Rana Dasgupta on his novel, <em>Solo</em>

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 28, 2011

Rana Dasgupta talks about his debut novel, Solo, which paints a portrait of a century though the story of a hundred-year-old blind Bulgarian man. It mixes his real life in Bulgaria with his imagined life.

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