A young adult novel in Sinhala, written by Letitia Botheju and published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd of Colombo. The whole text is in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it will suit readers who are comfortable in the language or families keeping it alive at home.
The story follows an elephant calf and a human child who grow up together in the forest. That pairing — a wild animal and a boy raised side by side in the same landscape — carries the novel, and the writing is unhurried and descriptive in its treatment of it.
The book also has a life beyond the page: it was the basis for Ali Kathawa, the film made by Professor Sunil Ariyaratne. Readers who know the film from Sri Lankan cinema will find here the work it came from.
M. D. Gunasena is a long-established Colombo publishing house working in Sinhala and English, with a steady list of fiction for younger readers. For buyers outside Sri Lanka, this is a straightforward way to hold a Sinhala young adult novel that has passed into the country's film culture as well as its reading.
- Author: Letitia Botheju
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 978-955-21-0037-2
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