A collection of short stories in Sinhala, written by Shakthika Sathkumara. The book is published in Sinhala only, with no English text, so it will suit readers of the language rather than buyers looking for a translation.
The stories turn on people pushed to the edge by circumstance and by the unfairness of the society around them, and on the inward pain that goes with it. Among the lives drawn here are grandfathers left alone on account of their grandchildren, and the untold story behind that solitude; young men whose lives come apart after falling foul of a prison clause; young women drawn into the traps of a dishonest love; and a woman isolated in a psychiatric hospital, carrying frightening memories of her past.
Sathkumara's approach across these pieces is a sensitive one, attentive to the complications of ordinary experience and written with a poetic turn of phrase rather than a documentary one. The register is sober and the subject matter is adult throughout.
Published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, a long-established Colombo publishing house and bookseller issuing titles in Sinhala and English. Of interest to readers following contemporary Sinhala short fiction and to anyone building a collection of modern Sri Lankan writing in the original language.
- Author: Shakthika Sathkumara
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 68
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