An abridged Sinhala translation of Emma, the English novel by Jane Austen, prepared by Premasiri Mahingoda and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co.
The whole text is in Sinhala. There is no English in it, and no parallel text, so this is a book for readers who read Sinhala comfortably — whether that means reading Austen for the first time in their own language, or returning to a familiar story in it. Being an abridgement rather than a complete translation, it carries the novel in shortened form.
Mahingoda's interest, as the publisher presents it, lies in the inward side of the novel: the fine movements of feeling and wish that Austen traces in her characters, and the attempt to carry that sensitivity across into Sinhala prose.
Of practical use to Sinhala-language readers abroad, to households keeping a Sinhala shelf outside Sri Lanka, and to anyone interested in how works of English fiction have been brought into Sinhala by Sri Lankan translators.
- Author: Premasiri Mahingoda
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552116544
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