Monkfish Moon

Literature & Fiction

Gunesekera, Romesh

Contemporary

Penguin Books / Granta

<p>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.</p>

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

The Sandglass

Doubleday, Canada

Sand Glass

ROMESH GUNESEKERA

Genre Fiction

Viking Pr

Heaven's Edge

<p>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.</p>

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

BLOOMSBURY

The Match

Bloomsbury Publishing

As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny is living the typical life of an expatriate in 1970s Manila—a privileged, carefree existence—until one day when the secret behind his mother’s tragic death years earlier is accidentally revealed to him, turning Sunny’s world upside down. His life takes a series of unexpected turns—first in England, where he falls in love with the luminous Clara, and later in Sri Lanka, where he returns during a brief lull in the country’s brutal ethnic war.Reminiscent of V.S. Naipaul in his nuanced treatment of the melancholy of exile, Gunesekera takes the reader on an utterly absorbing journey across the late twentieth-century postcolonial world. Spanning three continents and thirty years, The Match is a “beautiful and atmospheric” (Irish Times) exploration of the nature of loss and displacement, the search for identity and love, and the possibility, in the end, of redemption and renewal.

Match

Marc leaves London in search of a new life on an island off the coast of India where he falls in love with Uva, an eco-warrior who has been targeted by kidnappers.

Grove Pr

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