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The Perfect Man
[Paperback - 2007]
naeem murr
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: South Asian Literature
Publisher: Vintage Uk | ISBN: 9780099450023 | Pages: 429
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"The Perfect Man explores the power-both destructive and liberating-of what is not told, of the secrets that can shape us more profoundly than everything we believe to be true. ajiv Travers, the child of an Indian mother and English father, is abandoned first to relatives in London and later to the care of his uncle's mistress, Ruth Winters, who lives in a small American town. Beginning with Ruth, a remote figure who writes romance novels filled with perfect men, this town turns out to be as exotic and strange to Rajiv as he is to its inhabitants. But Rajiv, though always an outsider, finds love when he is befriended by four of the town's children. As the children grow older, their friendship becomes increasingly intense, and is complicated not only by desire and shifting loyalties, but also by the personal failings-and secrets-of the adults around them. ne secret in particular is masked by silence- the mystery surrounding the death, years before Rajiv's arrival, of an autistic child. When the silence breaks, the violence, anger, and madness that erupts costs one of Rajiv's friends the chance for any real future. s Rajiv tries to establish his place in a town besieged by what ca

About the Author

Naeem Murrʼs first novel,The Boy, was a New York Times Notable Book. Another novel,The Genius of the Sea, was published in 2003. His latest,The Perfect Man, was awarded The Commonwealth Writersʼ Prize for the Best Book of Europe and South Asia, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His work has been translated into eight languages. He has received many awards for his writing, most recently a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Pen Beyond Margins Award. He has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Missouri, Western Michigan, and Northwestern University, among others. Born and brought up in London, he has lived in America since his early twenties, and currently resides in Chicago.Photo: copyright Alan Cross.

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