Romesh Gunesekera

Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand plantation house. Under the surface of this beautiful island paradise, poised between India and Africa, there is unease, and Lucy cannot help but feel discomfited by the restrictions she sees around her, and by the strangely attractive Don Lambodar, a young translator from Ceylon. It is 1825: the age of slavery is coming to its messy end, and word is lapping against the shores of the island of a charismatic new Indian leader who will shine the light of liberty. For Lucy, for Don, for everyone on the island, a devastating storm is coming...

The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. Moving back and forth between London and Sri Lanka, the novel brings to life Prins Ducal and his search for answers about his family's past, including his father's rise to wealth, rivalry with the Vatunas family, and a suspicious death - a mystery that further unfolds upon Prins's arrival in London for his mother's funeral. Re-printed by Granta in a beautiful new edition.

As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket. But none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arrived, all poise and perfection. Three decades on, Sunny is settled in London with a teenage son of his own. But despite the quiet comfort of his life, he feels unmoored. Trying to reconnect with his past, he goes to watch the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team play at the Oval. As the sun goes down at the end of the match he realises that love, like cricket, is more than just a game. He sees one last chance to get his life into focus, if only there is time.

A beautifully imagined voyage of self-discovery by the Booker shortlisted author of Reef

In these stories, the author reveals lives shaped by the exotic, brutal country of his birth, Sri Lanka - a country in which everyone is frightened. "Reef" is the story of love in a spoiled paradise told by Triton, who at the age of 11 escapes from his family to work as a houseboy.

Un hombre inicia un viaje hacia la isla donde nació su abuelo y donde murió su padre. El lugar es inicialmente paradisiaco. Sin embargo, la situación política es cada vez más compleja y de un ambiente previo a la guerra civil. Para el la situacion es cada vez mas complicada e incomoda. El aparente paraiso cada vez parece algo menos real. La busqueda de su familia y pasado coincide tambien con su propio viaje interiro y el encuentro con una mujer que esta tan sola como el mismo.

Sri Lanka, 1993. Chip se encuentra en la habitación de un hotel preocupado por la desaparición de su amigo Prins Ducal, e intentará desentrañar el misterio de la trágica historia de la familia Ducal. Tras la accidental muerte de su marido, Jason Ducal, Pearl se traslada de Sri Lanka a Londres con sus tres hijos: Prins, Anoja y Ravi. Cuando sus hijos se emancipan, le sobran habitaciones y le alquila una a Chip. Poco a poco, este se convierte en el confidente de Pearl, que le hara participe de su vida: el distanciamiento entre ella y su marido debido a la obsesion de Jason por los negocios; la desgracia que supuso mudarse a Arcadia, una casa limitrofe con tierras de los Vacunan; la sempiterna rivalidad entre los Ducal y los Vacunan; el suicidio de Ravi En una perfecta trama en la que se entrelazan el presente y el pasado, Chip recordara su ultimo encuentro con Prins y como emergen extrañas sospechas acerca no solo de la muerte de Jason, sino de tantas otras cosas a En la obra de Gunesekera destaca la sensibilidad, la belleza y el lirismo de su prosa, y su capacidad de recrear el c