| Titre : |
Solo |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Rana DASGUPTA, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Année de publication : |
2010 |
| Importance : |
339 p. |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-547-39708-5 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
823 Fiction |
| Résumé : |
After his pragmatic father crushes Ulrich's passion for music, he turns to chemistry, a subject that takes him to Berlin, "the capital of world science," during the ebb of the Ottoman Empire. He works alongside researchers on the forefront of discovery and shares the halls with Albert Einstein. But WWI forces him back home to Bulgaria and into a bookkeeping job at a chemical plant, where years of political upheavals leading to communism drive Ulrich into a private world of experimentation that ends decades later when he's blinded in an accident. Yet his mind remains very much alive... |
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