Rabindranath Maharaj
Rabindranath Maharaj is the author of three previous novels: A Perfect Pledge, nominated for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and for the Regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book; The Lagahoo’s Apprentice, a Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Notable Book of the Year; and Homer in Flight, nominated for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award; and two collections of short stories, The Book of Ifs and Buts and The Interloper, which was nominated for a Regional Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. Rabindranath Maharaj was born in Trinidad and now lives in Ajax, Ontario.
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eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37402-8 (0-307-37402-5)
January 26, 2010 | $29.95
Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant — wise in the culture of comic books — is both hilarious and heartbreaking.
Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he is called to live with...
Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39727-0 (0-307-39727-0)
January 26, 2010 | $29.95
Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant — wise in the culture of comic books — is both hilarious and heartbreaking.
Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he is called to live with...
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97648-9 (0-676-97648-4)
July 25, 2006 | $21.00
A Perfect Pledge is at once a beautifully detailed novel about family life, a lively and abundant portrait of Trinidadian society and an ambitious, universal story of striving and strife. Following four decades of tumult – both national and domestic – this third novel by acclaimed author Rabindranath Maharaj is both...
Trade Paperback | 328 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97447-8 (0-676-97447-3)
September 10, 2002 | $24.00
“For so long I imagined I was making some long journey which would make sense when I had reached the end, but now I realize there are no journeys, just imprints in other people’s dusty footsteps.” -- from Journey of Angels
Recognized for his first collection of short fiction, The Interloper, with...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97370-9 (0-676-97370-1)
April 24, 2001 | $18.95
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Stephen Sagar returns eagerly to his native Trinidad when he is commissioned by a powerful island politician to write his biography. Expecting to discover a lost innocence, Stephen is at once disillusioned - old friends are no longer recognizable and strangers view him with indifference or...
