Reef
Will be published approx. on 3. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-78378-030-3 (ISBN)
Description
A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father's home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island's disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the depths of his childhood memories - a period of brewing political, ethical and religious turmoil - and brings us to understand how he has navigated this brave new world, which once lost will haunt him forever.
Reviews / Votes
A kind of Asian Tempest, drenched in the unreal, tropical colours of dream * Guardian * Dark as one of Graham Greene's tropical undergrowths, funny in the way that Naipaul can be, multi-layered in the manner of Joyce, evocative as Narayan, Reef is a thing of Beauty * Scotland on Sunday * A sensuous feast of delight, incessantly pleasurable to read, the writing, like the reef itself, shimmers with constant surprises * The Times * A work of strange, slow-motion, underwater intensity. Put your ear to the page and you can almost hear the ocean whisper * Independent * A book of the deepest human interest and moral poise...Very few contemporary novels combine at so high but natural a pitch qualities of epic strength and luminous intimacy * Independent on Sunday * A big treat to discover Gunesekera's magical evocation of a Sri Lanka on the brink of destruction -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail * An astute evocation of Sri Lanka as it approached a time of upheaval -- Eimear McKeith * Irish Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
140 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78378-030-3 (9781783780303)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Person
ROMESH GUNESEKERA grew up in Sri Lanka and now lives in London. His debut novel Reef was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and won the Yorkshire Post First Work Prize. In 1997 he was awarded the prestigious Premio Mondello award in Italy. He is the author of Monkfish Moon, The Sandglass and Noontide Toll, all published by Granta.