A Sinhala novel by Piyadasa Sirisena, published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it will suit readers who read the language or who are building a Sinhala-language collection abroad.
Sirisena belongs to the first generation of Sinhala novelists, and he is regarded as an important figure among the writers of that early period. His fiction took up the social questions of his own day and argued them out forcefully through the story. Maha Wiyawula is described by his publisher as one such attempt — a novel working in that same vein, using the form to open up the problems of the society around him.
For readers interested in how the Sinhala novel began and what its early practitioners wanted it to do, Sirisena's work sits close to the source. This is a title held on the list of a long-standing Colombo publishing house, and it remains in print in the original language.
- Author: Piyadasa Sirisena
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552102295
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