This is a Sinhala-language title from D M Sirinayaka, issued by Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house that publishes widely in Sinhala and English. The text is entirely in Sinhala script, with no English translation or parallel text, so it will suit readers who are comfortable reading Sinhala rather than those approaching the language for the first time.
The title carries the name Alimankada — the Sinhala name for Elephant Pass, the narrow causeway linking the Jaffna peninsula to the mainland in Sri Lanka's north. It is a place name that carries considerable weight in the country, and readers who know it will recognise it immediately on the cover.
It is a slim volume, the kind of short Sinhala book that Godage produces in quantity for readers at home. Copies of this sort rarely travel far beyond Sri Lanka, which makes them awkward to find for Sinhala speakers living abroad and for collectors building a shelf of contemporary Sinhala writing.
Likely to interest readers of Sinhala literature overseas, members of the diaspora keeping up a reading habit in the language, and university and private collections holding modern Sri Lankan titles in the original.
- Author: D M Sirinayaka
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 64
- ISBN: 9789553082138
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