A Perfect Pledge

✍ Scribed by Rabindranath Maharaj

• Publisher: Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada
• Year: 2006;2010
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 262 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A Perfect Pledge __ is at once a beautifully detailed novel about family life, a lively and abundant portrait of Trinidadian society and an ambitious, universal story of striving and strife. Following four decades of tumult -- both national and domestic -- this third novel by acclaimed author Rabindranath Maharaj is both deeply perceptive and strikingly unsentimental; it is full of singular characters and memorable, often hilarious dialogue. A Perfect Pledge __ is a major addition both to Canadian literature and to the literature of the Caribbean.

The novel begins with the birth of a child to Narpat and Dulari in the village of Lengua in the late 1950s. Geevan, known universally as Jeeves, is the son that Narpat, an irascible cane farmer, has long wished for to add to his three daughters. But, growing up in his father's shadow, Jeeves develops into a scrawny, quiet, somewhat sickly boy--not helped by Narpat's unusual dietary pronouncements,...