Solo Viola: A Post-Exotic Novel

by Antoine Volodine and Lia Swope Mitchell

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517911192
• ISBN13: 9781517911195
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.8"