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A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published. A stunning new edition of Romesh Gunesekera's debut novel.

A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father's home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island's disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the depths of his childhood memories - a period of brewing political, ethi...