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July-August 2018

REVIEW: Novel poses challenging questions about the soul and human mind

Inside Rabindranath Maharaj's Adjacentland

Ophelie Zalcmanis-Lai

Maharaj_Adjacentland_cover02_alt.inddAdjacentland
By Rabindranath Maharaj
Buckrider Books, $22.00

“Today is a new day but yesterday was the same day.” Adjacentland is a twisted story of a man’s journey to discover who he is after waking up in an institution with no memory and only odd clues within letters and drawings to guide his way. As each “stage” of the story unfolds, the main character’s repeated bouts of amnesia will make readers hungry to piece together what’s real and what’s not. In this scary futuristic landscape where imagination has been rendered obsolete by artificial intelligence, readers will enjoy the challenging questions Maharaj poses about the soul and human mind.

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