Description

A contemporary artist is out to win a portrait prize by sketching a Che Guevara rebel from the old Australian colony in Paraguay. The artists brother is troubled by doubts about the rebels heroic identity and feels obliged to investigate.Set largely in South America, the novel explores divergent approaches to the truth in the wilds of Bolivia where Che sought to ignite a widespread revolution. The investigation ends in Sydney where Ches ambitious dreams are still revered and the prize will soon be awarded. The counter-factual mysteries to be unravelled mirror South Americas own ingenious literary form, magic realism, a form reflecting the post-modern worlds richly-imagined but often bizarre perceptions.