Heaven's Edge

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 234, [2]. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; grey endpapers.

Signed by Author to title-page.

His third novel. Reef, his literary debut was shortlisted for both the 1994 Booker Prize and The Guardian First Fiction Award. A modern odyssey in which a young man leaves London for the land of his patrimony – an island once said to be near the edge of heaven but now wracked by war. "Despoiled paradises and desecrated Edens have always been at the heart of Romesh Gunesekera's subtle and often elegiac fiction. Heaven's Edge, his most powerful and compelling novel to date, recreates the mythic fall in the Edenic garden." –Guardian