A Sinhala novel by K.D. Darshana, built on the Manikantha Jataka, one of the birth stories of the Pali canon. The story is set in a great forest where an ascetic is keeping to a life of austerity, and it turns on his encounter with a naga bound to him by desire. From the bare outline of the Jataka tale, the author works outward into modern fiction, drawing together love, eroticism, psychological interiority and the supernatural.
The publisher flags the book for adult readers; its handling of desire and physical attachment is explicit rather than suggested, and buyers should take that at face value before ordering.
The novel is written entirely in Sinhala and has not been issued in English, so it will suit readers of Sinhala fiction and those following contemporary writers who rework canonical Buddhist narrative material into present-day forms. Published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, a long-established Sri Lankan house publishing in Sinhala and English.
- Author: K.D. Darshana
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 72
- ISBN: 9789552134609
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