A work of fiction in Sinhala by Cyril C. Perera, issued in Colombo under the Godage imprint. The text is wholly in Sinhala, with no English alongside it, so a reader will need Sinhala to use the book.
The National Library of Sri Lanka's union catalogue carries the record, where the title is filed under the subject heading "English fictions" — a heading that in that catalogue can mark a work rendered into Sinhala from an English-language original. The record names no original title and no original author, so what stands behind the Sinhala text is not identified there. Nothing further about the story itself appears in the public record.
Cyril C. Perera worked as a translator into Sinhala. A Sunday Observer article from 2008 surveying Sinhala translations of Russian fiction names him among the translators who brought Russian classics into the language — part of a body of translation work that put a great deal of foreign fiction within reach of Sinhala readers during the later twentieth century.
Godage Publishers is an established Colombo house with a long list in Sinhala and English, covering fiction, translation, history and reference. Books of this kind — mid-list Sinhala fiction and translation from the nineteen-eighties — tend to circulate locally and are not often seen outside Sri Lanka.
Of interest chiefly to Sinhala readers, to collectors of twentieth-century Sinhala translation, and to anyone following Perera's output as a translator.
- Author: Cyril C Perera
- Publisher: Godage Publishers
- Published: 1984
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 122
- ISBN: 9552035775
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