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Reef

Reef

Author(s): Romesh Gunesekera

Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 20th Century

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.

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