Reef  -  Romesh Gunesekera

KORTE INHOUD

Gunesekera has returned to Sri Lanka as the setting of his first novel, Reef. The story of love in a spoiled paradise is told by Triton, who at the age of eleven, having burned the roof of his school, escapes from his family and goes to work as houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disppearing reef. Triton learns to polish silver until it shines likes molten sun; to mix a love cake with ten eggs, creamed butter and fresh cashew nuts; and to steam t...
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1994 Uitgever: Penguin 192 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140142177 ISBN-13: 9780140142174