A collection of Sinhala folk tales, written and compiled by Indrani Dharmarathne, gathering twenty stories in a single volume. They are stories the author heard from her mother as a child, set down again so that children growing up now can hear them too.
The publisher presents it as a book for young readers and adults alike — the tales are pitched at schoolchildren, but the framing is that an older reader can sit with them just as happily. Anyone who grew up with Sinhala household storytelling will recognise the form: short tales passed down by voice rather than print, held in a family and retold.
The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so a reader will need to be comfortable in the language. It is published by M. D. Gunasena & Co., a long-standing Sri Lankan publishing and bookselling house.
Of interest to Sinhala-reading families abroad looking for children's reading in the language, and to anyone collecting Sri Lankan folk narrative in its own words.
- Author: Indrani Dharmarathne
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552132643
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