A Sinhala-language novel by Thushari Abeysekare, an established writer of fiction. The text is entirely in Sinhala and is not available here in English translation, so reading it requires Sinhala literacy.
The novel concerns women in Colombo who, for a range of reasons, find themselves placed in the social strata the city treats as lower, and who are undervalued by the society around them. The title turns on that comparison — cheap apples sold throughout Colombo — and the book is directed at the side of these women's lives that goes unseen by those who pass them. The work has also been adapted for television as a teledrama.
Published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, a long-established Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and English. For readers abroad who follow contemporary Sinhala fiction, or for Sri Lankan families overseas keeping a Sinhala reading habit alive, this is a novel rooted in the city and in the lives it tends to overlook.
- Author: Thushari Abeysekare
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552129681
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