My Dear Maura

This hilarious novel is a worthy sequel to the author’s highly acclaimed Goodbye to Elsa. Tristan, an Anglo-Indian professor, meets divorcee Maura Hawkins at a nudist meeting and instantly falls in love with her. He has just been released from a mental asylum to which obviously (he tells us) he had been admitted unfairly.


What follows is a crazy romp through a small Canadian town, involving its local university. Its batting academics, its feminists and young mothers, and not least Maura's year-old daughter, Clare. Tristan sees in Clare a hope for the future, and decides to ‘rescue’ her from her mother and this God forsaken country and take her to India with him. He plans a kidnapping one that is totally absurd and completely believable.


REVIEWS FOR THE BOOK:


"In a way it is a crazy book — not a novel at all, but just a book, a damn good one too". — Henry Miller

"Funny, full of bite." — The Times (London)


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:



Saros Cowasjee is Professor Emeritus of the University of Regina in Canada. His writings include the novels Goodbye to Elsa (1974) and My Dear Maura (2005), critical studies on Sean O'Casey and Mulk Raj Anand, and several anthologies of fiction. The latter include Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories (2001) and The Mulk Raj Anand Omnibus (2004). His latest is a collection of his own short fiction entitled Strange Meeting and Other Stories (2006).