Rabindranath Maharaj

Event Info: Toronto Book Awards Tent at 11:30 AM and 3:00 PM

Rabindranath Maharaj is the author of five novels and three short story collections. His books have been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (twice), The Rogers Fiction Prize, The Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Bocas Literature Award. His most recent novel won the 2011 Trillium English Language Fiction Prize.

Books

The Amazing Absorbing Boy

Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he is called to live with the father he has only heard of. He leaves his village in Trinidad and flies to Toronto, where he finds his father living in a place called Regent Park. Samuel is lonely in this “big mall of a country,” but he has his memories of superheroes — his mentors — to guide him, including the memory of an unusual friend who was two superheroes in one, as he sets out to explore what Toronto has to offer.