A historical novel in Sinhala, set in the age of the Sigiriya kingdom and built around King Kashyapa. Hashantha Perera writes fiction rather than history: the book is not a record of events but an imagined work, drawing on the rock of Sigiriya, its wall paintings and the figure of the king who built his seat there.
Historical fiction of this kind takes the known outline of a period and fills it with invented interior life — conversation, motive, feeling — and that is what is offered here. The publisher is M. D. Gunasena & Co., a Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and English.
Readers outside Sri Lanka should note that the text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation. It will suit readers who are comfortable in the language and interested in Sri Lankan fiction set in the island's early royal past, and those building a collection of contemporary Sinhala novels.
- Author: Hashantha Perera
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552127908
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