The material also includes photographs, handwritten detailed research notes, and annotated manuscripts. Salgodo as a housekeeper and eventual cook. The story revolves around the young, naive protagonist Triton, who is employed by Mr. The Romesh Gunesekera Collection contains digital extracts of his short stories and novels, as well as several poems. The novel, Reef by Romesh Gunesekera is essentially a story of growth and right of passage.

His early stories were published in Stand Magazine, London Magazine and Granta and his poems in the LRB, Poetry Durham and other magazines. Before coming to Britain he also lived in the Philippines. Digitised material in this file includes an extract of the novel, notes pertaining to research conducted by the author, and a draft manuscript. Biography Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Sri Lanka where he spent his early years. In 1997, it was awarded a Premio Mondello in Italy. This second novel by Gunesekera was short listed for both the Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1994, and was the winner of the Yorkshire Post Best First Work. It is told by an eleven year old Triton, who goes to work as a houseboy to Mister Salgado. Romesh Gunesekera's Reef is a love story set in Sri Lanka. Lost innocence in the final years before the war is the theme of this eloquent first novel by Romesh Gunesekera, whose Monkfish Moon, a collection of stories about his homeland of Sri Lanka attracted critical attention here in 1993. Reef by Romesh Gunesekera: 9781573225335 : Books. The originals are located with Romesh Gunesekera ‘Reef, one of the outstanding novels of our decade.’. Romesh Gunesekera Collection (GB 2661 RG) ‘Reef, one of the outstanding novels of our decade.’ Independent on Sunday Lost innocence in the final years before the war is the theme of this eloquent first novel by Romesh Gunesekera, whose Monkfish Moon, a collection of stories about his homeland of Sri Lanka attracted critical attention here in 1993. ‘Reef’ was published in 1994 by Granta Books. The first two pages of this final chapter have been digitised. This is the published version of “Strandline” – the final chapter in Gunesekera’s novel ‘Reef’.