The brilliant story of one man living through the 20th century, in Bulgaria.

It lies on the River Stour. Its Archbishop is the primate of the Church of England. You are inside the fabulous district of Canterbury, where you can book your accommodation (also online). Here you can find events, or choose somewhere to eat, discovering fantastic tourist attractions. Fine art, clothing, crafts and antiques are some of the offerings. Canterbury’s Whitefriars, brings you the best in fashion, with popular high street names. Westgate and St Dunstan are a stone’s throw away, offering a range of outlets. People born in Canterbury include poet Christopher Marlowe, singer Joseph McManners and writer Rana Dasgupta.

He was born in Canterbury, inside a 1971 November’sday. RANA DASGUPTA https://twitter.com/byranadasgupta is a British Indian novelist. He is currently working on a book about a proposed crisis of the nation-state system. As he say, now is the time of monsters. What comes after nations? One his book (Tokyo Cancelled, an examination of the experiences of globalisation), was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Among the prizes won, you can find the Commonwealth Prize. The Daily Telegraph, in 2010, called him one of Britain’s best novelists.

The unreal characters are actually figments of writer’s imagination. They are obviously exaggerated. When that writer decided to visit Bulgaria, he claims that his friends told him: there’s nothing there. The first half of the novel “Solo“, is bursting with true stories centred on the life and times of the 100-year-old man who lives in Bulgaria for most of the 20th Century. Inside this turbulent history there’s a glamour to the early pages, where you can find the ferment of revolution and the absurdity of the communist years.

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