A work of Sinhala prose by Cyril C. Perera, published by Godage International Publishers. The entire text is in Sinhala — there is no English in the book — so it will suit readers of the language, students working towards fluency, or a library building Sinhala-language holdings abroad.
Perera's name appears in Sri Lankan press coverage of literary translation: a Sunday Observer article lists him among the translators who brought Russian classics into Sinhala fiction. That strand of work matters to anyone tracing how Sinhala readers first encountered Russian literature, since translation from Russian formed a substantial part of mid-century Sinhala publishing and gave several writers a second career as translators. Perera's Nilodakaya, also issued by Godage, is held in the national union catalogue.
Godage International Publishers is an established Sri Lankan house issuing books in Sinhala and English across fiction, scholarship, religion and reference. A great many Sinhala titles that circulate on the island carry its imprint, and for buyers outside Sri Lanka a Godage book is often the only form in which a given Sinhala work exists in print.
Buyers who do not read Sinhala should treat this as a title for a specialist shelf rather than general reading. For those who do read the language, it is a volume from a writer whose working life was bound up with Sinhala literary prose and with the task of carrying foreign fiction into it.
- Author: Cyril C Perera
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 480
- ISBN: 9789552013041
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