![]() ![]() Eager to please and learn, Triton soon becomes the perfect servant and cook for Salgado, an affluent gentleman and scholar who studies local marine life, coral reefs in particular. The setting is Sri Lanka, a place that some think was the original Eden, and as the story begins, life is still sweet and mostly tranquil. The narrator, Triton, is brought to work for Mister Salgado in 1962, “the year of the bungled coup,” by his uncle, who has arranged a new life for him because he is in trouble at home. ![]() The simple pleasures of the domestic arts well done become the stuff of metaphor in this wise and poignant tale of loss, both political and personal, by Sri Lankan born Gunesekera (short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1994). ![]()
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