Reef

Author: Romesh Gunesekera

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 9 April 2026 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Granta Shorts' series.

Paperback | 192 pages
197 x 129 x 13 | 138g

'A work of strange, slow-motion, underwater intensity. Put your ear to the page and you can almost hear the ocean whisper' IndependentA single lighted match banishes Triton from his father's home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island's disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the depths of his childhood memories - a period of brewing political, ethical and religious turmoil - and brings us to understand how he has navigated this brave new world, which once lost will haunt him forever.