Monkfish Moon

First US edition. 8vo. 138 pp. Quarter-bound cream cloth over median blue paper-covered boards, stamped in black to spine. Jacket design by Naomi Yang.

Signed by Author to title-page.

A 1993 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Sri Lankan author's highly praised debut, a collection of nine short stories, focused on exile and loss stemming from the country's resurgent civil war. Gunesekera was one of the authors featured in the New Yorker India Fiction issue (June 23 & 30, 1997). "Close to Chekhov in tone... Gunesekera's writing works by implication, making words and images mean more than they actually say." –Financial Times