Suncatcher: Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2020 - Softcover

One of the most delicate contemporary handlers of English prose * Spectator * A master storyteller * The New York Times * Gunesekera conjures strange and wonderful images and writes with a wonderful deftness * Financial Times * Gunesekera writes in sentences prickling with irony, with humane appeal and masterly finesse * Sunday Times * Gunesekera is an exceptionally poised and potent craftsman -- Pico Iyer * Wall Street Journal * Humane warmth and bitter irony combine as Gunesekera surveys traumatised survivors, returned exiles, aid workers, shame-stricken army personal and opportunistic foreign visitors * Sunday Times, Books of the Year * Gunesekera's lush descriptions make you see and smell the island and feel its hot, damp air on your skin * Spectator * A terrific read: pacy, political, moral, atmospheric and yes, definitely romantic ... Gunesekera's exquisite prose awakens all the senses -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown * Independent * Gunesekera is strikingly adept at delineating the landscape of rootlessness ... [He] has a gentle, generous, deceptively light touch * Sunday Times * Gunesekera's mellifluous prose alone is worth the price of admission. His description here of a first kiss has surely never been bettered * Daily Mail * Gunesekera's storytelling is languorous, atmospheric, imagistic * Guardian * Gunesekera's language has a simple surface - but the simplicity is deceptive; his observation is as close as the stare of a voyeur * Independent * Gunesekera is quite simply a very good, often inspiring lyric writer who feels as deeply as he sees * Irish Times * Full of the uncertain sadness of exiles and dreamers Gunesekera's characters become memorable emblems of solitude and despair * Vogue *

Romesh Gunesekera is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction including Reef, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Sandglass, winner of the inaugural BBC Asia Award, and The Match, the ground-breaking cricket novel. His debut collection of stories, Monk?sh Moon, was a New York Times Notable Book. His last book Noontide Toll captured a vital moment in post-war Sri Lanka. His fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages and he is the recipient of many awards including a Premio Mondello in Italy. He was born in Colombo and lives in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. www.romeshgunesekera.com