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Rana Dasgupta · 2009 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

A blind hundred-year-old Bulgarian chemist in Sofia reviews his century in the first half of the book and then, in the second, imagines the life he might have had. A British-Indian writer's novel of the twentieth century in Eastern Europe.

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