If the moon smiled
විසින් Chandani Lokuge
- මෙම සංස්කරණයේ ප්රකාශන වසර: 2000
- පළමු ප්රකාශනයේ වසර: 2000
- ප්රකාශන වර්ගය: පොත
- භාෂාව: English
- ISBN-13: 9780140284720
- පුස්තකාලය: Pusthakalaya · Washington, D. C.
- පිවිසුම් අංකය: 2007-01-18-01
- ඇමතුම් අංකය: PR9440.9.L65 I3 2000
- ප්රකාශක: Penguin Books
- ප්රකාශන ස්ථානය: New Delhi
- මිලදීගත් දිනය: 2007-01-18
- මුල් මිල: 600.00 LKR
- මූලපද: Sri Lanka -- Fiction.
'I go down to the river, unheeding my mother’s disapproval. I dip into the lazily flowing water. Here, at least, nothing has changed.The bath-cloth balloons around my body and I press it down. I loosen my hair and let it spread where it will. I open my hands upwards on the water’s surface, languidly remembering. All, that is familiar. The promise. The promise of life.'As a young woman in Sri Lanka, Manthri marvels at the promise of life and yearns for a future of fulfilled dreams. Years on, she finds herself in a loveless marriage, in a foreign land, and estranged from her two Australian children. Torn between an idyllic past to which she cannot return and a present that breaks her heart, she never loses touch with those dreams, nor abandons her passionate enchantment with life.