Charlotte Brontë's novel comes here into Sinhala, in a version by R.N.H. Perera. The text is Sinhala throughout — buyers outside Sri Lanka should know that there is no English in it, and that reading it requires Sinhala.
Brontë, an English writer, first published the novel under the pen name Currer Bell. It opens with Jane as an orphaned girl and follows her as she grows, showing the self-assurance she builds in herself along the way. Around her is Victorian society as it actually was, and the book stays close to a woman's inner thoughts and wishes, and to the struggles she undertakes to reach what she wants for herself. It is written in the first person, so that what the narrator means to say comes across directly.
The publisher describes it as a positive novel suited to any woman who wants to break through obstacles and hardship in society and keep going. That is the spirit in which this Sinhala edition is presented: Brontë's story of an orphaned girl who becomes a woman with a firm sense of her own worth.
Issued by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, an established Colombo publishing house that brings out books in Sinhala and English, including Sinhala versions of works of world literature. For Sinhala readers abroad, and for households keeping a Sinhala library outside Sri Lanka, it is a familiar English novel in a language the family actually reads at home.
- Author: R.N.H. Perera
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552105807
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