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The Rajkumar Trilogy
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Europa Edizioni Srl
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
Rajkumar is a man who defies definition. Accused of impossible crimes, yet always acquitted thanks to airtight alibis, he seems to move between multiple places and multiple truths at the same time. A brilliant doctor, a mysterious mystic, a figure both feared and revered, he becomes a legend in a Trinidad steeped in superstition, faith, and violence. The Rajkumar Trilogy is an intense and magnetic novel, where reality and myth blur and the line between good and evil dissolves. Leaving the reader with a single question: what if some stories are true precisely because they are impossible to explain?
A.J. Benedict Born in Trinidad and Tobago, he is a storyteller who grew up immersed in the Caribbean oral tradition. He studied briefly, acting, drama and script reading under the tutelage of the late playwright and poet Derek Walcott.
Trained in the performing arts and oral traditions, he has taken his work across theater, radio, film, and live storytelling, performing in museums, schools, and festivals across the United States. Today, he devotes himself to writing, exploring the power of storytelling as a form of cultural and artistic expression.
His novel, The Rajkumar Trilogy began as a folktale in the oral tradition, a story which reflected aspects of the Trinidad Caribbean culture and later turned out to be a story that perfectly captures the idea of writing as a space where culture, imagination, and identity come together.
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