Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland rewritten in Sinhala for Sri Lankan children. Lal Premanath De Mel has not produced a direct translation: the story has been retold in plain, flowing Sinhala pitched at a young reader's ear, keeping Carroll's tale while letting the language move at its own pace.
The book is written entirely in Sinhala. There is no English text in it, so it will suit readers who have Sinhala at home or in the classroom, families raising children bilingually abroad, and anyone learning to read the language who already knows where the story is going — a familiar plot makes unfamiliar script easier going.
The publisher is M. D. Gunasena & Co., an established Colombo house with a long presence in Sinhala-language and educational publishing. Retellings of this kind sit in a steady tradition of bringing well-known works into Sinhala in a register children can manage on their own, rather than in the more formal prose of a faithful literary translation.
Worth considering if you are building a Sinhala reading shelf for a child, or want a version of Alice that a Sri Lankan reader can meet first in their own language.
- Author: Lal Premanath De Mel
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552127151
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