A small Sinhala book built around Andare, the figure remembered in Sri Lankan folklore as a wit attached to a royal household in the country's past. This volume carries one such story, titled here Pol Mure.
The Andare tales work in the way folk humour often does: the comedy arrives first, and the satire comes with it. Andare's exchanges turn on quickness of tongue rather than on action, and the laughter usually falls on someone who had the advantage of rank going in.
The text is in Sinhala throughout, published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd. There is no English translation within it, so a reader will need Sinhala to follow the story. For Sri Lankan families abroad, this is the kind of title parents and grandparents often reach for when they want children to meet the old characters in the language they were told in.
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552120398
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