The question that drives this novel is a plain one: why does a land once spoken of as the granary of the East now hold out its hand to other countries? Madawala S. Rathnayake builds his story around that question, and the telling is close enough to verse that it is often described as prose poetry rather than straight narrative.
The book is in Sinhala throughout. There is no English text in it, so it will only be of use to a reader of the language — worth knowing before ordering from overseas.
Akkara Paha has held a readership across generations of Sri Lankan readers. It has been prescribed as a set text for examinations, and it was adapted for the cinema. It was awarded the Don Pedrick Prize.
Published by M. D. Gunasena & Co., an established Colombo house that publishes in Sinhala and English, including school and examination titles. For readers abroad with Sinhala in the family, for students working towards local examinations outside the country, and for anyone building a shelf of modern Sinhala fiction, this is one of the novels that keeps being returned to.
- Author: Madawala S. Rathnayake
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552102004
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