A work of Sinhala fiction by Dilini Kaushalya Jayasuriya, 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 the language.
The publisher describes the book as a story of love that swings between responses, fittings and misfittings, set against the events of a life that changes from one second to the next. Alongside that runs the account of lives lived in the presence of wealth, power, fame and popularity — what those things draw towards a person, and what they ask of them. The title, borrowed from the scientific name for termites, sits over that material.
M. D. Gunasena is a long-standing Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and English, and this falls within its contemporary Sinhala fiction list. For buyers outside Sri Lanka, it is the kind of title that circulates mainly within the domestic trade: readers abroad who follow new Sinhala writing, Sri Lankan families keeping a reading habit alive in the language, and students of modern Sinhala prose are the likeliest audience here.
- Author: Dilini Kaushalya Jayasuriya
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552129742
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