A small Sinhala storybook built around Andare, the figure remembered in Sri Lankan folk tradition as a wit attached to a royal court in an earlier age. The telling here turns on a single tale, Man Kukula, and like the wider body of Andare stories it works through humour that carries a satirical edge rather than through simple comedy.
Andare belongs to the stock of characters that Sinhala readers meet early and keep returning to — the clever man who gets the better of grander people by saying exactly the wrong thing at exactly the right moment. Stories of this kind have circulated orally for generations before being gathered into print for children and family reading.
The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it will suit readers of Sinhala, families raising children in the language abroad, and anyone building a collection of Sinhala folk humour. It is published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, a long-established Sri Lankan publishing and bookselling house.
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552120367
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