A Quiet Disappearance

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Pub Date Mar 18 2025 | Archive Date Mar 31 2025
Literary Press Group of Canada | Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.

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Description

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. The stories consider the briefness of life, not only its final outcome but the losses accumulated over the years. Many of the stories focus on characters who are at a critical stage, approaching the end of their lives, or contemplating the passing of others with whom they shared a relationship. The fact that the characters are immigrants, complicates their feelings of forfeiture.

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. The stories consider the...


A Note From the Publisher

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.

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...


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Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781774151839
PRICE CA$22.95 (CAD)
PAGES 200

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