A collection of Sinhala short stories by Hansika Sewwandi, 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 stories work from a single idea: that a person holds more sides than the one visible from outside. Good and bad, victory and defeat, cruelty and affection surface in the same individual at different moments, depending on what the moment asks of them. Sewwandi builds her stories around that reality of the human mind — shaped, as she presents it, by the events a person has lived through over a lifetime and by the things they have said and done along the way.
The people in these stories are ordinary ones, the sort met in daily life. What the collection sets out to open up is what sits behind them: the private matters they carry, and the experiences that have marked them.
Hansika Sewwandi writes in Sinhala. M. D. Gunasena & Co. is a long-established Colombo publishing house producing books in Sinhala and English.
- Author: Hansika Sewwandi
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 56
- ISBN: 9789552134548
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