![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]() It is also a mature, poetic novel which the British press has compared to the works of James Joyce, Graham Greene, V.S. It is a personal story that parallels the larger movement of a country from a hopeful, young democracy to troubled island society. 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 move. ![]()
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