A model citizen

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  • Published 20180206
  • ISBN: 9781925603293
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

HE TOLD ME he’d meet me at the corner of the station where Citibank had a small office.

‘I’ll be wearing my Rocky T-shirt,’ he added.

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Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera is internationally acclaimed for his fiction, including the Booker-shortlisted Reef (Granta, 1994) and most recently Noontide Toll (Granta, 2014), which explores the...

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