Romesh Gunesekera, Author New Press $20 (192p) ISBN 978-1-56584-219-9
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this thoughtful, entrancing tale of a Sinhalese houseboy's maturation takes place in the early 1980s, in the edenic calm before Sri Lanka erupts in violence. Marine biology and native cuisine become metaphors for...
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Romesh Gunesekera, Author New Press $21.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-56584-484-1
Mysterious disappearances--of individuals, families, nations and ways of life--haunt this poignant tale of two feuding Sri Lankan families and their intertwined destinies, at home and in England, since the 1950s. Piecing together diaries and...
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Romesh Gunesekera, Author New Press $24.95 (308p) ISBN 978-1-59558-198-3
A Sri Lankan man mired in nostalgia pursues elusive passions in this fourth, bittersweet novel from award-winning Gunesekera (Heaven's Edge). Sunny Fernando, naïve and given to elaborate fantasies, arrives at the turning point in his...
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Romesh Gunesekera, Author Penguin Books $0 (138p) ISBN 978-0-14-014218-1
Nine beautifully modulated and memorable stories mark the U.S. debut of Gunesekera, who grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippines and now lives in London. The unusual power of Gunesekera's writing stems from his graceful manipulation of contrasts:...
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Romesh Gunesekera. New Press (Perseus, dist.), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1620970201
Guneskera's (Monkfish Moon) newest work is a cross between a collection of stories and a novel. The chapters are both self-contained stories and a larger arc of reflections and revelations related to the protagonist, Vasantha. Set in 2009, two years
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Romesh Gunesekera, Author, Fomesh Gunesekera, Author . Grove $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1735-9
Set on an environmentally devastated tropical island that resembles his native Sri Lanka, Gunesekera's new novel follows a Londoner named Marc, who comes to the island to find his father but instead gets caught up in a passionate affair with an...
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Romesh Gunesekera, Author, Romesh Guresekera, Author Riverhead Books $14 (192p) ISBN 978-1-57322-533-5
Gunesekera's novel of a young houseboy in Sri Lanka was a Booker Prize finalist. (Feb.)
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Romesh Gunesekera. New Press, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62097-559-6
Gunesekera’s engrossing coming-of-age tale (after Noon Tide Toll) explores the porous class boundaries in 1960s Ceylon. After schools close in the city of Columbo due to government upheaval, preteen Kairo fills his time hanging out with an older,...
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