Rabindranath Maharaj

Rabindranath Maharaj is a Trinidad-born Canadian novelist and short-story writer. His novel The Amazing Absorbing Boy won the Trillium Book Award and the Toronto Book Award, and his fiction often examines migration, belonging, and Caribbean diasporic life.

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The Amazing Absorbing Boy

2010 · Contemporary

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3 editions: Print · 2010 | Print · 2011 | eBook · 2010

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Seventeen-year-old Samuel, naïve and inexperienced, leaves his home in Trinidad for Canada following the death of his mother. He hasn't seen his father since he was six years old and now, thrust into a new life together, Samuel soon realizes that he is considered a burden. Undaunted, though still wide-eyed, and propelled by a comic book sensibility, Samuel begins to explore the vast foreign landscape that is Toronto. There he encounters molemen, super-villains, chimeras, trolls and a host of sidekicks. With his fourth novel, Rabindranath Maharaj gives us his best work yet, a powerful and funny story of a naive young immigrant who is wise in the culture of comic books, and a portrait of big-city Canada we have never seen before.

Print · Knopf Canada · 2010 · English
ISBN 9780307397270

Print · Knopf Canada · 2011-09-20 · English
ISBN 9780307397287

eBook · Random House Digital Inc. · 2010-01-26 · English
ISBN 9780307374028

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Contemporary