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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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- Title Reef
- Author Romesh Gunesekera
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Press, New York
- Date 1995
- ISBN 9781565842199 / 1565842197
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.58 x 5.84 x 0.88 in (21.79 x 14.83 x 2.24 cm)
- Reading level 770
- Library of Congress subjects Bildungsromane, Sri Lanka
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94022577
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/15/1995, Page 895
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/1994, Page 1512
- Library Journal, 02/01/1995, Page 98
- Publishers Weekly, 12/19/1994, Page 45
- School Library Journal, 04/01/1995, Page 166
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