Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

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 (Originally written for the facebook group 'Sri Lankan Readers'/ 'පොත් කියවන අය', back in 8th July, 2013)     Kafka on the ...
Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Amma - Saraid de Silva

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  "I have a tale to tell Sometimes it gets so hard to hide it well I was not ready for the fall Too blind to see the writing on the wal...
Sunday, 1 June 2025

Pastoralia - George Saunders

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 George Saunders' name, as an author came to my notice upon his winning the Pulitzer for fiction, for the amazing "Lincoln in the B...

The Banana Tree Crisis - Isankya Kodithuwakku

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Read the Gratiaen prize winning book of 2006, the short story collection, "The Banana Tree Crisis". The book attempts to capture t...
Saturday, 19 April 2025

සතුරෝ - අජිත් තිලකසේන

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කෙටි කතා සංග්‍රහයේ පිට කවරයේ එහි නම සඳහන් ආකාරයටවත් එහි නම මෙහි නිමවා ගැනීමට නොහැකි, කෙටිකතා සංග්‍රහයකි ; තිලකසේනගේ පළමු කෙටිකතා සංග්‍රහයයි;...
Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Brotherless Night - V.V. Ganeshananthan

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 I read V.V. Ganeshananthan's first novel, a few months back, as one of the last books for 2024. The primary reason for reading Love Mar...
Saturday, 5 April 2025

The Netanyahus - Joshua Cohen

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The complete title of this book, which won the Pulitzer Award for fiction (2021) is, The Netenyahus : An Account of a Minor and Ultimately E...