Reef Romesh Gunesekera by Romesh Gunesekera 9780143422471, 0143422472 instant download after payment.

Romesh Gunesekera's debut novel is a haunting coming-of-age story set against a background of social unrest and a fast-disappearing paradise.

A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father’s home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed with 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.

"The simple pleasures of the domestic arts well done become the stuff of metaphor in this wise and poignant tale of loss, both political and personal, by Sri Lankan-born Gunesekera... An extraordinarily accomplished mix of the sensual and the cerebral in beautifully detailed settings by a writer of great promise."  -  Kirkus Reviews

Romesh Gunesekera is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including Monkfish Moon, Reef, The Sandglass and Noontide Toll, all of which are published by Granta Books. In 1997 Gunesekera was awarded the prestigious Premio Mondello award in Italy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004.