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The Fourth
Canvas
by Rana Bose |
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Fiction
ISBN:
9781894770477
$20.95
Paperback
208 pages
Published
2008 |
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Some time in the
1970s:
A Calcutta teacher and radical, Subhash Ganguli, on the run from
Indian Authorities, disappears in London. The body of a
left-wing Latin American intellectual. Guillermo Sanchez, is
pulled out from the Seine.
Years later, post 9/11:
Claude Chiragi, McGill scholar, and son of a Pakistani
free-spirit and a Quebecoise, receives as present a painting
signed "G Sanchez." It is evident that the painting is one of a
series and contains a subversive message about the rise and fall
of empires: Two periods of rise, followed by two periods of
decline. And it seems that some of the figures in the
painting move--or is he imagining? Claude and his girlfriend
Clara embark on an adventure across three continents, involving
murder, kidnapping, a trek into ancestral roots, and a school
for subversives in the jungle, and discover a world of political
and intellectual conspiracies, all out to obscure the message of
the paintings. But who was Guillermo Sanchez, and is he really
dead?
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The Fourth
Canvas is an intellectual thriller, an
ambitious novel of ideas
full of juicy characters. Rana Bose tackles the
enigma
at the
heart of all great thinkers and doers.
marianne
ackerman
Using six degrees of separation and a mysterious
artist's fourth canvas,
author Rana Bose builds one great story!
Desi Life
With complex characters, a wide-spanning time period, and historical fact mixed with brilliant fiction, The
Fourth Canvas
will leave you asking,
When is the next Bose book ready?
carp(e) libris
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RANA BOSE's
first novel, Recovering Rude, was published by Vehicule
Press in 2000 to critical acclaim. He has also been a well-known
playwright in Canada and has had ten of his plays published by
Seagull, Prestige and The Canadian Theatre Review. He has
been an engineer, mentor, consultant, performance poet, and
playwright, and resides in Montreal and sometimes in Kolkata
(Calcutta). He is also one of the editors of the webzine
Montreal Serai. |
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