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FICTION
ISBN:
9781894770477
Paper
$20.95; 208 pages
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In the
early 1970s a reclusive artist and philosopher disappears in
Paris after completing a fantastic series of canvases that trace
the rise and fall of empires. Eventually his bloated body is
dragged from the Seine. The knowledge and insight die with him.
Years later, Claude Chiragi, a graduate student in Montreal
receives a mysterious painting and senses the relevance of the
theory embedded in the artwork. His curiosity is instantly
aroused, and he launches a global search for clues that will
help him understand the message and unravel the mystery of the
artist’s fate. Embedded in the paintings are tell-tale
historical clues, mysteriously coded, that predict imperial
entropy in the future—from economic collapse and cultural
decadence to a coup d’etat against civil society. Kidnappings,
killings, undercover conspiracy and a trek into ancestral roots,
lend to this novel its quality of intellectual mystery and
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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. All of these
plays have been performed in Canada, US, and India and perhaps
elsewhere. He has been an engineer, mentor, consultant,
performance poet, playwright, and resides in Montreal and
sometimes in Kolkata. He is also one of the editors of the
webzine Montreal Serai. |
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