The Theory-Death of the Avant-Garde Hardcoverby Paul Mann (Author)

The Theory-Death of the Avant-Garde

Politics & Social Sciences

Mann, Paul

Philosophy

Indiana University Press

A corpse has been discovered in a lake in Film City, the Hollywood of India, where film stars always guarantee fresh material for scandal. The victim has been so badly mutiliated that it is impossible to identify the body as male or female, let alone give it a name. An outsider in his own land, with a British father and a feminist mother, George Sansi, who may be the only honest policeman in Bombay, is given the case. As he painstakingly follows up every clue, a shocking portrait of evil emerges. And Sansi is pulled into a political imbroglio from which his career may never recover . . . if he lives so long. From the Paperback edition.

Season of the Monsoon

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Ballantine Books

It all begins in Bombay, when George Sansi gets a bizarre visit from his former boss, the powerful joint commissioner of crime branch, Narendra Jamal. With the look of a desperate man, Jamal confides that the government's plans for Goa -- the so-called Ganja Coast, a decadent beach community where aging American hippies and drug dealers mingle -- will create an opportunity for Indian-style corruption that staggers even the cynical Sansi. The man who stands to steal the most is Jamal's rival, the Minister for Economic Development, Rajiv Banerjee. Jamal wants Sansi to travel to Goa and dig up the evidence that will bring Banerjee down. Most of the burned out inhabitants of Goa seem blissfully unaware of the coming changes. But evil soon becomes manifest, shattering the hippies' view of Goa as an innocent paradise: the morning after the latest beach party, the strangled body of a child is found floating in the waves. With his American lover, newspaper reporter Annie Gennaro, Sansi sets out for a luxurious Goan resort, where he and Annie will pretend to enjoy a much needed rest. But relaxing is the last thing they will do, as they back their way into a tangled jungle of Western dropouts, drugs, money, and murder that has overgrown the last refuge of pleasure in India.

Ganja Coast

Literature & Fiction

United States

Hailed by critics and honored as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Season of the Monsoon, Paul Mann's first mystery set in the turbulent world of contemporary India, created a literary sensation. A bold, seductive series, the New York Times Book Review declared when The Ganja Coast, the second George Sansi mystery, appeared two years later. Now in The Burning Ghats, Paul Mann's Anglo-Indian hero returns for a triumphant third appearance in a spellbinding, intricately structured novel of political intrigue, corporate greed, and fierce passions. India cherishes the river city of Varanasi as one of her most sacred places, for it is here on the burning ghats that the bodies of the devout dead are cremated and their ashes scattered over the Ganges. Yet it is at this blessed shrine that one of the most terrible human and ecological disasters of modern times takes place. As thousands of mourners bathe in the holy waters, a lethal chemical spill swirls down the river, literally consuming the flesh of all who come in contact with it. More than a thousand people die in agony, and thousands more are injured. In a nation still reeling from the poison gas disaster of Bhopal, a single question takes on hideous urgency: who is responsible for this outrage? It is this question that ignites a personal crusade led by Rupe Seshan, the government's new minister for the environment and also one of the most ruthlessly ambitious, dangerously attractive women in India. Rupe knows that her political future hinges on moving swiftly and decisively, and so she places the Varanasi investigation in the hands of a shrewd and powerful friend--Bombay attorney George Sansi. The fact that George and Rupe had stopped just shy of becoming lovers years ago infuses a deep erotic undercurrent into their professional relationship. As Sansi throws himself into the Varanasi case, he amasses more and more evidence implicating the invincible rich and unscrupulous magnate Madhuri Amlani and his Renown Industries in the chemical spill. Sansi braces for a vicious legal battle with Amlani--but the showdown in court is only the opening skirmish in an all-out war involving cover-ups, blackmail, and assassination at the highest levels of power. As he sees his allies destroyed and the governments authority undermined, George Sansi realizes that he alone has the power--and the knowledge--to topple Amlani. But can he use what he knows before Amlani crushes him? In The Burning Ghats, Paul Mann captures the turmoil, the excitement, and the danger attending India's monumental struggle to transform itself into a major economic power. Written with grace and wit, mesmerizing in its suspense, imbued with the rich, erotic sensuousness of the Indian subcontinent, The Burning Ghats is at once a profound work of fiction and a terrifically compelling read.

The Burning Ghats (George Sansi Mystery)

The Burning Ghats

Random House Value Publishing

Provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism. These provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism describe, in their form and content, the end of criticism, even while performing the endlessness of that endgame. In a sense, the book deconstructs all forms of critique and criticism, including deconstruction, and including its own self. That the book is so painfully aware of the futility of its own enterprise, even while pursuing it relentlessly and with such critical rigor, is what makes this a book of masocriticism as well as about masocriticism.

Masocriticism (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)

Essays & Correspondence

State Univ of New York Pr

Provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism.These provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism describe, in their form and content, the end of criticism, even while performing the endlessness of that endgame. In a sense, the book deconstructs all forms of critique and criticism, including deconstruction, and including its own self. That the book is so painfully aware of the futility of its own enterprise, even while pursuing it relentlessly and with such critical rigor, is what makes this a book of masocriticism as well as about masocriticism.

State University of New York Press

A corpse has been discovered in a lake in Film City, the Hollywood of India, where film stars always guarantee fresh material for scandal. The victim has been so badly mutiliated that it is impossible to identify the body as male or female, let alone give it a name. An outsider in his own land, with a British father and a feminist mother, George Sansi, who may be the only honest policeman in Bombay, is given the case. As he painstakingly follows up every clue, a shocking portrait of evil emerges. And Sansi is pulled into a political imbroglio from which his career may never recover . . . if he lives so long.

Fawcett

"MANN'S INDIA GRABS YOU BY THE THROAT. . . .Sansi, an ex-cop turned lawyer, is complex and compelling." --The Philadelphia Inquirer Even Goa, a sleepy beach community along India's "Ganja" coast, cannot escape the creeping reach of corruption. As voracious developers gear up to turn Goa into a moneymaking machine, lawyer George Sansi is pressured to dig up evidence on the man who stands to steal the most: the Minister for Economic Development, Rajiv Banerjee. Most of the burned-out inhabitants of Goa seem blissfully unaware of the coming changes--until the strangled body of a child is found floating in the waves, shattering even the aging Western hippies' view of Goa as an innocent paradise. With his American lover, newspaper reporter Annie Ginnaro, Sansi sets out for a luxurious Goan resort, where he and Annie will pretend to enjoy a much needed rest. But relaxing is the last thing they will do, as they hack their way through a tangled jungle of Western dropouts, drugs, money, and murder that has overgrown around the last refuge of pleasure in India.... "[MANN] SETS ASTOUNDINGLY VIVID SCENES OF A DECADENT CITY in the throes of life, the better to draw sharp, grim portraits of characters flirting with bizarre forms of death." --The New York Times Book Review "CHILLING. . .TRULY SHOCKING. . .An intriguing look at another culture--one where the best and the worst of East and West meet." --San Francisco Examiner

India cherishes the river city of Varanasi, for it is here on the burning ghats that the bodies of the devout dead are cremated and their ashes scattered over the Ganges. Then, as thousands of pilgrims bathe in the holy waters, a lethal chemical spill swirls down the river, consuming the flesh of all who come in contact with it. More than a thousand people die in agony. Who is responsible?As Bombay attorney George Sansi pursues the case, he amasses more and more evidence implicating the invincible, rich, and unscrupulous magnate Madhuri Amlani. Sansi braces for a vicious legal battle--but the showdown in court is only the opening skirmish in an all-out war involving cover-ups, blackmail, and assassination at the highest levels of power. . . .

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The Theory-Death of the Avant-Garde

Season of the Monsoon

Ganja Coast

The Burning Ghats (George Sansi Mystery)

The Burning Ghats

Masocriticism (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)

Masocriticism (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)

Season of the Monsoon

Ganja Coast

The Burning Ghats (George Sansi Mystery)