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Romesh Gunesekera was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in London, England. He is the author of Reef (which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize) and Monkfish Moon.

From Sri Lanka in the 1950s to present-day England, Booker finalist Gunesekera chronicles the bitter legacy of civil war through the intertwined destinies of two feuding families.

Jacqueline Carey

Part of the singularity of The Sandglass is the way it expresses [a] splintering process through the virtually equal...attention given to the many secondary characters...[T]here is no doubt that this is an important novel....It pesters, it cross-pollinates, it lingers. —The New York Times Book Review