Monkfish Moon

Literature & Fiction

Gunesekera, Romesh

Contemporary

Penguin Books / Granta

Reef is a love story set in a spoiled paradise. It is told by Trtion, who at the age of eleven goes to work as a houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disappearing reef. Triton learns to polish silver; to mix a love cake with ten eggs, creamed butter and fresh cashew nuts; and to steam the exotic parrot fish for his master's lover.

Reef

Granta Books

The "incandescent" (New York Times Book Review) coming-of-age-story and debut novel by the acclaimed Booker Prize finalist Romesh GunesekeraTriton loved living in Mister Salgado's house. It was the biggest house he had ever seen--filled with floors to sweep and silver to polish and meals to cook and adults to impress and a brilliant master whose voice was poetry. And people from all over the world came to the house-- to sell their wares, to talk, to live, for this was where life took place. Even the sun would rise from the garage and sleep behind the del tree at night. And in the house, life was good.But beyond Mister Salgado's house and their Sri Lankan village there was a world. And all around them, it was falling apart...

Penguin Uk

In these stories, the author reveals lives shaped by the exotic, brutal country of his birth, Sri Lanka - a country in which everyone is frightened. "Reef" is the story of love in a spoiled paradise told by Triton, who as the age of 11 escapes from his family to work as a houseboy.

Literary

Granta

A Sri Lankan, Romesh Gunesekera grew up in surroundings of natural beauty but in a society disoriented by sudden savage acts of terrorism and the constant threat of civil war. In these stories he reveals lives shaped by the exotic, brutal country of his birth.

Monkfish moon

The Sandglass

Doubleday, Canada

Sand Glass

Romesh Gunesekera

Genre Fiction

Viking Pr

Heaven's Edge

This third novel of Romesh Gunesekera's recounts Marc's travels to the island where his grandfather was born and where his father's plane was shot down in flames. After an affair with the subversive eco-warrior Uva, he embarks on a journey to find her, one that will test all his beliefs.

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