Romesh Gunesekera REEF Signed Hardback

First edition, second print hardback of REEF, by Romesh Gunesekera and published by Granta Books/Penguin Group, London in 1994. Signed by Gunesekera on the title page. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994.

The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with silver lettering on the spine), with minor shelf wear to the illustrated dust jacket which is not price clipped. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.

Reef is a love story set in a spoiled paradise. It is told by Triton, who at the age of eleven goes to work as houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamp, sea movements and the islands disappearing reef. Triton learns to polish silver; to mix a love cake with ten eggs, creamed butter and fresh cashew nuts; and to steam the exotic parrot fish for his masters lover. As Triton recounts his story, an extraordinary voice emerges: naive and knowing, fearful and brave, a boy becoming a man in a world on the brink of chaos. 

190 pages.

ISBN: 0140142177

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