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First US edition. 8vo. 190 pp. Quarter-bound navy blue cloth over like paper-covered boards, stamped in silver to spine. Jacket design by Knute Breiding.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Gunesekera's second book and first novel. Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. "[T]o conserve, to protect, to care for the past is something we have to learn." History through the palate, as Triton plumbs the depths of his childhood memories of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed with the coastal erosion of a Sri Lankan island. Author was featured in the New Yorker India Fiction issue (June 23 & 30, 1997). "Powerful, incandescent. Lost innocence in the final years before a war is the theme of this eloquent first novel." –The New York Times Book Review