A Quiet Disappearance
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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.
Rabindranath Maharaj
Rabindranath Maharaj is the author of six novels and three short story collections. His novel, The Amazing Absorbing Boy, won both the Toronto Book Award and the Trillium Book Award. In 2012, Maharaj received a Lifetime Literary Award as part of the commemoration of Trinidad's fiftieth independence anniversary, and in 2013, he was awarded Canada's Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. His books have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, the Netherlands and Turkey. He is the co-editor, along with Dionne Brand and Tessa McWatt, of Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada.
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