A Sinhala-language novel by Kanchana Kumari Dodangoda, published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The entire text is in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it will suit readers who are comfortable reading fiction in the language.
The story follows several generations whose lives pass amid continual tears, and the hardship and grief they carry. At its centre is an image the publisher's own description returns to: a flower bud whose petals have been crushed, which opens all the same, and loves without a bee ever coming near it. The narrative moves between pain, sighs of sorrow and moments of happiness, and between the sorrow of what came before and the silver-coin laughter that sets it aside.
M. D. Gunasena is a long-established Colombo publisher and bookseller issuing titles in Sinhala and English. Readers building a collection of contemporary Sinhala fiction, or sending Sinhala-language reading to family abroad, are the likely audience for this one.
- Author: Kanchana Kumari Dodangoda
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552131950
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