![]() ![]() ![]() Salgado’s little world at the end of the lane. Gunesekera uses powerfully descriptive language to explain Triton and Mr. The narrative launches into a series of dinner parties that Triton crafts the party discourse reminiscent of The Sun Also Rises, if Hemingway knew how to write prose. Salgado, reserved and reflective and Nili, outgoing and insatiable. Salgado’s project takes the backburner after he starts dating Nili, a front desk hotel manager, who loves hosting parties and consuming cake by the kilo. From the moment Triton first visits the ocean, he is anxious about its inevitable power: “each wave just a grain of sand closer to washing the life out of us.” The narrator uses similar subtle yet inescapable descriptions to portray the unfolding political turmoil. Salgado, a marine biologist and member of the Colombo intelligentsia, runs a small government project, seeking to slow beach erosion and reef degradation.Īs the narrative progresses, the erosion appears to be an allegory for the impending civil war. His narrative begins on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1962, shortly after the failed coup d’état. ![]() Romesh Gunesekera’s novel Reef tells the story of Triton, a young cook who is indentured to Mr. ![]()
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