A retelling of a folk tale that Sinhala-speaking children grow up hearing: that however fine the peacock looks, the plumage he wears truly belongs to the avichchiya. Lal Premanath De Mel sets that familiar story down again here, in his own telling, for M. D. Gunasena & Co. of Colombo.
The book is written entirely in Sinhala, with no English text. Buyers ordering from outside Sri Lanka should be comfortable reading Sinhala, or be buying for someone who is — families abroad keeping the language alive at home, Sinhala learners working with simple narrative, or collectors of Sri Lankan folk material in the original.
Tales of this kind are passed on by ear long before they are read on a page, and a printed version gives a household a fixed text to return to. If the story of the peacock and the avichchiya is one you were told yourself, this is a copy to read aloud.
- Author: Lal Premanath De Mel
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552127137
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