Sādarayen piḷiganimu readers,
This is our monthly discussion of the literature of the world! Every Wednesday, we’ll post a new country or culture for you to recommend literature from, with the caveat that it must have been written by someone from that there (i.e. Shogun by James Clavell is a great book but wouldn’t be included in Japanese literature).
February 4 was Independence Day in Sri Lanka and, to celebrate, we’re discussing Sri Lankan literature! Please use this thread to discuss your favorite Sri Lankan literature and authors.
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Obaṭa stutiyi and enjoy!
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. This is a pretty popular book given it won the 2022 Booker Prize but worth a mention.
Some recommendations – mostly more recent literature:
Sonali Deraniyagala – The Wave – about losing her husband and two sons in the 2004 tsunami. Heartbreaking but beautifully and sensitively written
Shehan Karunatilaka – Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew: an old sports writer tries to discover what happened to a famous cricketer who disappeared.
Shyam Selvadurai – Funny Boy: coming of age story about a young gay boy in Sri Lanka
Vajra Chandrasekara – The Saint of Bright Doors – fantasy/SF novel
Anushiya Ramaswamy – Traitor: a former child soldier who left the LTTE wrote this memoir about the Sri Lankan civil war
VV Ganeshananthan – Brotherless Night: novel about a young doctor during the Sri Lanka civil war and her four brothers.
Aruk Arudprasagam – A Passage North: novel about a young married couple during the Sri Lankan civil war