A collection of short stories in Sinhala by Priyanwada M. Banduwardena, published in Colombo by Godage. The National Library of Sri Lanka's catalogue records it as කෙටිකතා — short stories — and a separate library record in the same union catalogue classifies it as Sinhala fiction.
The book is written entirely in Sinhala. There is no English text and no parallel translation, so it will read only for those comfortable in the language. For buyers outside Sri Lanka, that is the first thing worth knowing: this is a Sinhala-language title intended for a Sinhala readership, of the kind stocked by booksellers and public libraries on the island rather than issued for export.
Banduwardena also wrote the novel Mavvaru ha duvaru, published in Colombo by Sooriya, so Allapu Gedara sits alongside longer fiction in her work.
Godage is an established Colombo publishing house issuing books in Sinhala and in English across fiction, poetry, scholarship and reference. Much of contemporary Sinhala short fiction reaches readers through houses of this sort, often with little presence in catalogues outside the country — which is part of why titles like this one are difficult to come by abroad.
This will suit readers of Sinhala looking for contemporary short fiction, buyers assembling a collection of modern Sinhala literature, and anyone in the diaspora who reads in Sinhala and wants to keep up with work being published in Colombo now.
- Author: Priyanwada M. Banduwardena
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 152
- ISBN: 9789553093486
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