A collection of a hundred short reflections, written in Sinhala. The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so a reader will need to be comfortable in the language before ordering.
The premise the publisher sets out is a simple one. Every person needs the four requisites — food and drink, clothing, shelter, and medicine for illness. But to believe that life is complete once those are secured is, the book argues, a delusion. What follows is a hundred pieces of counsel for living, offered as reflections rather than as a single sustained argument, which means the book can be read straight through or opened at any point.
It sits in a long and well-populated Sinhala tradition of short moral and practical writing — the kind of book kept at hand and returned to rather than read once. Readers who already buy Sinhala-language works on conduct, contentment and everyday ethics will recognise the form immediately.
Published by M. D. Gunasena & Co., an established Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and English. For buyers outside Sri Lanka, this is a title that rarely turns up outside the island's own bookshops, and it will be of most use to Sinhala readers abroad and to those keeping up a reading habit in the language at a distance from home.
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552104619
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