Reef is set in the disintegrating paradise of Sri Lanka. Told by Triton, who has been working as a house servant to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by sea movements and the disappearing coral reef, this novel spans political upheavals in Sri Lanka and exile in London. Beautifully told – at once luminous and epic – Reef was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994 and remains a timeless, urgent classic.