![]() ![]() Forced to leave Sri Lanka by the worsening political situation, they move to London where Triton opens a restaurant. ![]() The book is narrated by a young Sri Lankan boy named Triton who is sent to work for a marine biologist, Mister Salgado. Reef (1994), his first novel, won a Yorkshire Post Book Award (Best First Work) and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Guardian Fiction Prize. His first book, Monkfish Moon, a collection of short stories reflecting the ethnic and political tensions that have threatened Sri Lanka since independence in 1948, was published in 1992. He gained an Arts Council Writers' Award in 1991. ![]() He grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippines, moving to England in 1971. Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. ![]()
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