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Maharaj Rabindranath

The Amazing Absorbing Boy

Vintage Canada

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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.

Death of a Guru: A Remarkable True Story of one Man's Search for Truth

Harvest House Publishers

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Rabi R. Maharaj came from a long line of Brahmin priests and gurus and trained as a yogi. He meditated for many hours each day, but gradually disillusionment set in. He describes Hindu life and custom, vividly and honestly tracing his difficult search for meaning and his struggle to choose between Hinduism and Christianity.

At a time when Eastern mysticism, religion, and philosophy fascinate many in the West, Maharaj offers fresh and important insights from the perspective of his own experience.

“A unique revelation of the inward struggles of a Hindu and the ultimate triumph over death that he discovered. I found it challenging and inspiring. Must reading.”—Hal Lindsey

A Perfect Pledge: A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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It is 1961 and Trinidad, at once a lush island paradise and a poverty-stricken hole, is inching toward independence. Narpat, a sugar cane farmer, finds himself caught at the crossroads of a changing world. He is a hard-working man of modest means, and is sickened by the corruption and materialism running rampant on the island. He thinks his neighbors are greedy, shiftless, and enslaved to the rumshop. But Narpat is different. He contrasts the helplessness of the islanders with the resourcefulness of his ancient Aryans, and through a series of stringent moral codes and dietary injunctions, sets about to create order within his family and the village. His rules impose a great deal of deprivation on his wife and four children, and his wife must wage her own battle against her husband's ensuing neglect. Then Narpat decides to single-handedly build a factory to prevent the loss of his livelihood. Narpat's youngest son Jeeves watches his father's obsession with the factory, watches his mother's health decline, and watches as she dies. Unable to prevent his mother's death, he tries to redeem his father by constantly reminding him of the fables the older man told to his young children. And these fables with their undertones of pledges and duty steel the son for a terrible sacrifice.

In A Perfect Pledge, Maharaj combines a Dickensian rendering of the effects of poverty, caste, envy, superstition,corruption and bigotry with vivid, complex characters and gorgeous writing, in a novel that celebrates both the resilience of the human spirit and the heartbreak of failed dreams.
The Picture of Nobody (Good Reads)

Grass Roots Press

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Tommy lives with his family in Ajax, a small town close to Toronto. His parents are Ismaili Muslims who immigrated to Canada before Tommy was born. Tommy, a shy, chubby seventeen-year-old, feels like an outsider.
The arrest of a terrorist group in Toronto turns Tommy's world upside down. No one noticed him before. Now, he experiences the sting of racism at the local coffee shop where he works part-time. A group of young men who hang out at the coffee shop begin to bully him. In spite, Tommy commits an act of revenge against the group's ringleader.
This book is a quick and easy read for people on the go.
Tommy lives with his family in Ajax, a small town close to Toronto. His parents are Ismaili Muslims who immigrated to Canada before Tommy was born. Tommy, a shy, chubby seventeen-year-old, feels like an outsider.
The arrest of a terrorist group in Toronto turns Tommy's world upside down. No one noticed him before. Now, he experiences the sting of racism at the local coffee shop where he works part-time. A group of young men who hang out at the coffee shop begin to bully him. In spite, Tommy commits an act of revenge against the group's ringleader.
This book is a quick and easy read for people on the go.
The Interloper

Goose Lane Editions

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The astonishing stories in The Interloper capture the moment when ambivalence floods the new immigrant’s consciousness. Regret and nostalgia take turns overwhelming and being overwhelmed by rosy expectations, and only drastic measures stave off paralysis and ruin.
Homer in Flight

Goose Lane Editions

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Hilarious and poignant, Homer in Flight draws a brilliant picture of a chronic malcontent roving from high-rise to housing development along the 401 and the QEW. Homer remains utterly displaced, not because of what other people do or don’t do, but because he lives in his imagination instead of embracing an imperfect but fairly benign reality.

Maharaj Rabindranath News




Celebrated Durham author is group's breakfast guest
Newsdurhamregion.com - Dec 03, 2010
Celebrated Durham author is group's breakfast guestDURHAM -- Rabindranath Maharaj, arguably Durham's most celebrated author, is The Writers' Community of Durham Region's guest on Dec. 11.

SPIC MACAY National School Intensive to be inaugurated by Pt. Birju Maharaj ...
India PRwire (press release) - Dec 01, 2010
It is dedicated to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Sh.Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mother Teresa and Pt. Mallikarjun Mansoor.

Souza's tribute to Tagore highlight of Indian auction
Bombay News - Nov 23, 2010
Souza's tribute to Tagore highlight of Indian auctionA tribute to Rabindranath Tagore by FN Souza will occupy a pride of the place at the auction titled 'Significant Indian Paintings' Sale 0007' by auction and more »

Gulzar releases Marathi translation of Tagore poems
Indian Express - Nov 20, 2010
“Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore's poetry has been instumental in shaping up the coure of my life and I want the same to happen to the present generation. and more »

Raja Ravi Varma, Tagore works to be auctioned
IBNLive.com - Nov 27, 2010
Others, however, like a FN Souza Tribute to Rabindranath Tagore do not have that embargo on them. But prohibition or not, the auction promises to grab Paintings by Tagore and other artists up for bidsall 6 news articles »