Romesh Gunesekera

In these stories, the author reveals lives shaped by the exotic, brutal country of his birth, Sri Lanka - a country in which everyone is frightened. Reef is the story of love in a spoiled paradise told by Triton, who at the age of 11 escapes from his family to work as a houseboy.

Reef

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.

Hellboy TCR

Let me tell you this : Ms. Chimamanda Adichie rightly called it a modern classic.

Reef

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