- Published: 01/09/2011
- ISBN: 9781847084187
- 129x20mm
- 144 pages
Monkfish Moon
Romesh Gunesekera
This vivid and haunting short-story collection flows smoothly together to create a masterful portrait of contemporary Sri Lanka; a country of teeming natural beauty, with a society in turmoil. A married couple, living in London, find their marriage strained by fighting in their far-off homeland. A man mourns his brother’s death. A woman regrets the lover she left behind. Between exile and loss, Gunesekera’s characters struggle for the elusive and divided place that they call home. Re-printed by Granta in a beautiful new edition.
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Full of the uncertain sadness of exiles and dreamers
Vogue
Tropic lushness burgeons from every cranny of these stories... spice gardens, flame trees, frangipani and hibiscus hedges. But all this merely seems a luscious veil behind which violence and viciousness hide... Graceful and grim, [these stories] constitute careful civilized bulletins on barbarity's reverberations
Sunday Times
Gunesekera's language has a simple surface-but the simplicity is deceptive; his observation is as close as the stare of a voyeur
Independent
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‘Identity, it seemed, was not so self-determined after all.’
Essays & Memoir | Granta 149, Europe
Ariel’s Song
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‘It is to Shakespeare’s pages I return whenever I feel I am sinking. There I can be sure to find a lifeline.’
Essays & Memoir | Granta 125
Mess
Romesh Gunesekera
‘You have to go on the offensive until you smell victory. Then you have the aphrodisiac and can go full tilt.’