Having taken four years to write Solo — a novel about the life and daydreams of Ulrich, a one hundred year old man from Bulgaria, Rana says, “Solo was an extremely intense, internal journey which is hard to communicate about. The real work of writing is very solitary and a private experience. You are essentially living in a fictional world which exists only because you’ve made it up — there’s no one else living in that world and so you can’t really talk about it to anyone. So, until you finish the book, it’s a very isolated place.”
Solo won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book for Europe and South Asia on March 11.
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