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Beautifully crafted stories in which older men and women from the Caribbean islands confront their pasts, with regrets and wonder as they discover subtle epiphanies.
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Rabindranath Maharaj is an award-winning author of several novels, among them
The Amazing Absorbing Boy, winner of the Trillium Book Award and the Toronto Book Award;
A Perfect Pledge, a Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize finalist; and
Homer in Flight, a Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award finalist.
Maharaj immigrated to Canada from Trinidad in the 1990s, and settled in Ajax, Ontario, where he taught high school and co-founded a literary magazine,
LICHEN. He has been a writer-in-residence at the Toronto Reference Library, the University of the West Indies, and the University of New Brunswick. Apart from his novels and collections of short stories, he has published in various literary journals and anthologies; written reviews and articles for
The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and others; written the radio series "Malcolm and Alvin" for CBC Radio; and co-written a screenplay for the film Malini.
