num_pages: 191
description: A 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.
title: Riff.
titlecomplete: Riff.
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Asia, Contemporary, Food, Historical Fiction, Asian Literature, Historical, Novels
ratings_count: 1783
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Unionsverlag