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Books with author Romesh Gunesekera

  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Paperback (Riverhead Books, Feb. 1, 1996)
    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...
  • Reef

    romesh Gunesekera

    Hardcover (Penguin Putnam~trade, June 15, 1994)
    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.
  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    eBook (Granta Books, Sept. 1, 2011)
    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. Gunesekera's debut novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, is a haunting and elegiac love-story set in a spoiled paradise, which continues to be as vital and relevant as ever. Re-printed by Granta in a beautiful new edition.
  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Hardcover (The New Press, April 1, 1995)
    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 marinate 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.
  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Paperback (Granta Books, July 3, 2014)
    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.
  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Paperback (Granta Books, March 15, 1995)
    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

    ROMESH GUNESEKERA

    Paperback (Granta Books, March 15, 2017)
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  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Paperback (Granta Books, Jan. 31, 1998)
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  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Paperback (Riverhead Trade, Feb. 1, 1996)
    Triton, an idealistic young cook in Sri Lanka, masters his duties under the studious eyes of marine biologist Mr. Salgado, oblivious to the political unrest tearing his land apart. Reprint. NYT.
  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Paperback (Penguin UK, Oct. 4, 1994)
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  • Reef by Romesh Gunesekera

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Paperback (Granta, March 15, 1883)
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  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Paperback (New Press, March 15, 1994)
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