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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 gripping suspense.
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Rana Bose's first novel, Recovering Rude was published by Vehicule Press in 2000 to critical acclaim. He was 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 was an engineer, mentor, consultant, performance poet, and playwright. He was also one of the editors of the webzine Montreal Serai.
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Some time in the 1970's
A Calcutta teacher and radical, Subhash Ganguli, on the run from Indian authorities, disappears in London. The body of a left-wing Latin Amerian intellectial, Guillermo Sanchez, is pulled out of 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 Sanches." 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 delcine. And it seems that some of the figures in the painting more - or is he imagining? Claude and his girfrlied, Clara, embark on an adventure across three continents, involving murder, kidnapping, a trek into ancstral roots, and a school for subversives in the jungle, and discover a world of political and intellectual conspiracies, all out ot obscure the message of the painings. But who was Guillermo Sanchez, and is he really dead?
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Some time in the 1970's
A Calcutta teacher and radical, Subhash Ganguli, on the run from Indian authorities, disappears in London. The body of a left-wing Latin Amerian intellectial, Guillermo Sanchez, is pulled out of 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 Sanches." 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 delcine. And it seems that some of the figures in the painting more - or is he imagining? Claude and his girfrlied, Clara, embark on an adventure across three continents, involving murder, kidnapping, a trek into ancstral roots, and a school for subversives in the jungle, and discover a world of political and intellectual conspiracies, all out ot obscure the message of the painings. But who was Guillermo Sanchez, and is he really dead?
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