Circles and Squares

Wrestling with Shadows (March, 2022 edition)

Emanuel Pastreich, Author

The novel “Wrestling with Shadows” relates the mysterious, and at times outlandish, adventures of a naïve professor who was caught up in a whirlwind of mysterious events resulting from his proposal for cooperation between the United States and Asia. This maelstrom carried him deep into the matrix, beyond anything he had imagined possible, and ultimately pushed him out of his job, and finally, out of his country.

“Wrestling with Shadows” limns the political chaos after the 2000 presidential election in the United States and hints at the desperate battle of a handful Americans, in government and outside, who tried to keep the nation from collapsing into anomy. Several of events described in this novel, although well known to insiders, have never been treated in print anywhere else.

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