# Solo Viola

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- Authors: [Manuela Draeger](https://www.bookquiver.com/antoine-volodine)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2021-05-11
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Solo Viola

- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- ISBN: 978-15-1791-119-5
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2021-05-11
- Language: en_US