A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers
At once humorous and horrifying, Solo Viola is one of Antoine Volodine’s first forays into post-exoticism. He takes the reader into a fictional world where a variety of characters collide: three prisoners just released from jail, a band of circus performers, a string quartet, a writer, and a bird. All are trying to survive in an absurd and hostile environment of authoritarian spectacle, at the mercy of a tyrannical buffoon, and seeking the strange counterbalance of hope in a viola player, whose stunning music just might save them all, if only for a moment.
- ISBN10 1517911192
- ISBN13 9781517911195
- Publish Date 11 May 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 112
- Language English