Reef
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Published:3rd Jul '14
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A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published
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.
A kind of Asian Tempest, drenched in the unreal, tropical colours of dream * Guardian *
Dark as one of Graham Greene's tropical undergrowths, funny in the way that Naipaul can be, multi-layered in the manner of Joyce, evocative as Narayan, Reef is a thing of Beauty * Scotland on Sunday *
A sensuous feast of delight, incessantly pleasurable to read, the writing, like the reef itself, shimmers with constant surprises * The Times *
A work of strange, slow-motion, underwater intensity. Put your ear to the page and you can almost hear the ocean whisper * Independent *
A book of the deepest human interest and moral poise...Very few contemporary novels combine at so high but natural a pitch qualities of epic strength and luminous intimacy * Independent on Sunday *
A big treat to discover Gunesekera's magical evocation of a Sri Lanka on the brink of destruction -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *
An astute evocation of Sri Lanka as it approached a time of upheaval -- Eimear McKeith * Irish Times *
- Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction.
ISBN: 9781783780303
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 140g
192 pages