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The Lagahoo's Apprentice - Hardcover

Maharaj, Rabindranath

 
9780676972474: The Lagahoo's Apprentice
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0676972470 ISBN 13: 9780676972474
Verlag: Knopf Canada, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This beautiful, harrowing novel, from the much praised writer whose previous work was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, is the gripping story of a man who returns to the island of his youth in the hopes of recapturing a lost happiness.

Trapped in a loveless marriage, filled with nostalgia for a simpler, joyful time, Stephen Sagar leaves eagerly for Trinidad when he is commissioned by a powerful island politician to write his biography. The politician - a despot who has buttressed himself in an old plantation - ignores him at first, but Stephen is befriended by servants who show him a side of island life he'd chosen to forget. Then, as he explores the lush landscape, he runs into a woman who once loved him, and in her need to love again, his own longing begins to evolve and intensify.

The writing is as powerful and memorable as the story itself - with extraordinary characters, moments of wrenching poignancy and flashes of hilarity, and wondrous descriptions of the gothic plantation and its creeping, scented plant life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rabindranath Maharaj's first novel, Homer in Flight, was shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, praised by writers such as Olive Senior and Neil Bissoondath, and broadcast on CBC's Between the Covers. His previous collection of short stories, The Interloper, was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. He lives in Ajax, Ontario.

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"If Homer in Flight were simply a depiction of immigrant experience it would still be worth reading for its wit, anger and language.--Vivid and entertaining--a book that inspires admiration." --André Alexis, The Toronto Star

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This beautiful, harrowing novel, from the much praised writer whose previous work was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, is the gripping story of a man who returns to the island of his youth in the hopes of recapturing a lost happiness.

Trapped in a loveless marriage, filled with nostalgia for a simpler, joyful time, Stephen Sagar leaves eagerly for Trinidad when he is commissioned by a powerful island politician to write his biography. The politician - a despot who has buttressed himself in an old plantation - ignores him at first, but Stephen is befriended by servants who show him a side of island life he'd chosen to forget. Then, as he explores the lush landscape, he runs into a woman who once loved him, and in her need to love again, his own longing begins to evolve and intensify.

The writing is as powerful and memorable as the story itself - with extraordinary characters, moments of wrenching poignancy and flashes of hilarity, and wondrous descriptions of the gothic plantation and its creeping, scented plant life.

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Verlag
Knopf Canada
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0676972470
ISBN 13 
9780676972474
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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