This is an abridged Sinhala translation of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's novel, prepared by Premasiri Mahingoda. The whole book is in Sinhala — there is no English text in it — so it will suit readers who read the language, families reading aloud at home, or anyone building a Sinhala shelf of translated fiction for younger readers.
Being a condensed version rather than a full-length rendering, it carries the story in shortened form, which is the usual approach taken in Sinhala for well-known foreign novels brought to school-age readers. The translator's attention, as the publisher describes it, is on carrying across the feeling of the original and the quiet movements of its characters' inner lives rather than on a line-by-line equivalence.
The publisher, M. D. Gunasena & Co., is a long-established Colombo house issuing books in Sinhala and English, with a steady list of school and general reading. Copies of this title are sold through Lakpura for readers outside Sri Lanka.
- Author: Premasiri Mahingoda
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552117046
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