This is a work of Sinhala fiction by A Simon De Silva, issued by Godage Publishers, an established Colombo house that publishes across Sinhala and English lists.
The text is in Sinhala throughout. There is no English translation or parallel text here, so a buyer ordering from outside Sri Lanka should be comfortable reading Sinhala script before adding it to a basket. Anyone wanting this material in English will need to look elsewhere.
The title presents the book as the first novel written in Sinhala, which places it at the beginning of the form's history on the island rather than in the modern canon. That makes it of interest to a particular kind of reader: students of Sinhala literature tracing where prose fiction in the language began, readers building a shelf of early Sinhala writing, and university or school readers working through set texts on the development of the novel.
For general readers of Sinhala fiction, it is a short volume and an early one — closer to a document of literary origins than to contemporary storytelling. Godage's editions of this kind are plainly produced and intended for study and steady reading rather than display.
- Author: A Simon De Silva
- Publisher: Godage Publishers
- Published: 2016
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 136
- ISBN: 978-955-30-0542-x
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