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Author_Romesh Gunesekera
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- ISBN 9781803513584
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A work of strange, slow-motion, underwater intensity. Put your ear to the page and you can almost hear the ocean whisper' Independent
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.
Romesh Gunesekera is the author of Reef, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Sandglass, which was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and won the inaugural BBC Asia Award, The Match and Noontide Toll. His debut collection of stories, Monkfish Moon, was a New York Times Notable Book. He was born in Colombo and lives in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
