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The Perfect Man: A Novel
Naeem Murr
Random House Trade Paperbacks
April 2007
On Sale: April 17, 2007
464 pages
ISBN: 0812977017
EAN: 9780812977011
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Fiction
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and
South Asia.
Winner of the 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Award. Identity, friendship, and a long-hidden crime lie at the
heart of Naeem Murr’s captivating novel about five friends
growing up in a small 1950s Missouri river town. A contender
for the Man Booker Prize, this exhilarating story
beautifully evokes the extreme joys, as well as the dark and
shameful desires, of childhood. Young Rajiv Travers hasn’t had much luck fitting in
anywhere. Born to an Indian mother who was sold to his
English father for £20, Raj is abandoned by his relatives
into the reluctant care of Ruth, an American romance writer
living in Pisgah, Missouri. While his skin color unsettles
most of the townsfolk, who are used to seeing things in
black and white, the quick-witted Raj soon finds his place
among a group of children his own age. While the friends remain loyal to one another through the
years, it becomes clear that their paths will veer in
markedly different directions. But breaking free of the
demands of their families and their community, as well as
one another, comes at a devastating price: As the chilling
secrets of Pisgah’s residents surface, the madness that
erupts will cost Raj his closest friend even as it offers
him the life he always dreamed of. Taking us into the intimate life of small-town America, The
Perfect Man explores both the power of the secrets that
shape us and the capacity of love in all its guises to heal
even the most damaged of souls.
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