A Sinhala-language novel by Saman Athapaththu, published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it will suit readers who are comfortable reading fiction in the language.
Athapaththu builds the novel out of the beliefs and observances that have been carried through Sri Lankan village society from the past — the things people held to be true, and the practices that followed from holding them. Rather than setting these out as folklore, he works them into the fabric of a story, fitting them together as the material of fiction.
Alongside the beliefs themselves, the novel is concerned with the social and cultural pressures that ran through that older village society: how people met those pressures, and the extent to which they found ways of resolving them. That is the ground the narrative covers, and it is where the book's interest lies for a reader coming to it from an interest in village life and belief rather than in plot alone.
Of likely interest to Sinhala readers abroad who want contemporary fiction rooted in traditional belief and rural social life, and to anyone building a collection of Sinhala novels. M. D. Gunasena & Co. is an established Colombo publishing house issuing books in Sinhala and English.
- Author: Saman Athapaththu
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552132605
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