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The story of love in a spoiled paradise is told by Triton, who at the age of 11, escapes from his family and goes to work as houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disappearing reef.
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'A big treat - and a resulting sadness - to discover Gunesekera's magical evocation of a Sri Lanka on the brink of destruction. The ending made me cry' --Retro Reads, Daily Mail
'Gunesekera's Booker-shortlisted first novel, now reissued in this 20th-anniversary edition, remains an astute evocation of Sri Lanka as it approached a time of upheaval' --Paperback of the Week, Irish Times
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'Gunesekera's Booker-shortlisted first novel, now reissued in this 20th-anniversary edition, remains an astute evocation of Sri Lanka as it approached a time of upheaval' --Paperback of the Week, Irish Times
Reef is the elegant and moving story of Triton, a talented young chef so committed to pleasing his master's palate that he is oblivious to the political unrest threatening his Sri Lankan paradise. It is a personal story that parallels the larger movement of a country from a hopeful, young democracy to troubled island society. It is also a mature, poetic novel which the British press has compared to the works of James Joyce, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, and Anton Chekhov. With his collection of short stories Monkfish Moon - a New York Times Notable Book of 1993 - Romesh Gunesekera quickly established himself as a leading literary voice. Reef earned universal praise from European critics and landed the young author on the short list for the 1994 Booker Prize, England's highest honor for fiction. Reef explores the entwined lives of Mr. Salgado, an aristocratic marine biologist and student of sea movements and the disappearing reef, and his houseboy, Triton, who learns to polish silver until it shines like molten sun; to mix a love cake with ten eggs, creamed butter, and fresh cadju nuts; to marinade tiger prawns; and to steam parrot fish. Through these characters and the forty years of political disintegration their country endures, Gunesekera tells the tragic, sometimes comic, story of a lost paradise and a young man coming to terms with his destiny.
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- PublisherPenguin Books / Granta
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0140140301
- ISBN 13 9780140140309
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- Number of pages192
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Paperback. Reef. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Remainder mark to edge. Crease to corner back cover. This book is a love story set in a spoiled paradise. It is told by Triton, who at the age of eleven goes to work as houseboy to Mister Salgado, a maritime biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disappearing reef. As Triton recounts his story, an extraordinary voice emerges: naive and knowing, fearful and brave, a boy becoming a man in a world on the brink of chaos. 190 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.). Seller Inventory # 107043
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