New Arrivals

Vidhimath Pavahan Nishpadanayakata Maga

Jeevanasuri Dayantha de Soysa's Vidhimath Pavahan Nishpadanayakata Maga was launched recently as an author publication.

The book is an A to Z guide to those interested in turning out footwear. The author explains many technical areas such as size scale, man form, plastic shell, heel grip, upper grading, sole grading, counter puff and toe puff. It is probably the first Sinhala book published on the art of shoe making which is an ideal self-employment avenue.

The book comes with copious sketches, photographs and tables. The neat binding and clear print will make it a handy manual for those in the shoe-making industry.

- RS

Up-to-date introduction to world's most controversial writer

Salman Rushdie: Second Edition (Basingstoke, U.K. and New York:

Palgrave Macmillan, updated and expanded with four new chapters and new Conclusion, 2010

'A valuable and thorough reading of a major contemporary novelist's writing'

- Prof Randy Boyagoda, Ryerson University, Canada

Salman Rushdie is one of the most widely-studied and controversial contemporary British authors. This revised and expanded new edition of an established text explores all of Rushdie's fiction, non-fiction and biographical writings to date.

Considering the author's fiction as art, in all its richness of significance and technique, D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke examines the blend of autobiographical and historical elements and analyses Rushdie's complex position as a migrant writer.

Salman Rushdie, second edition features new chapters which discuss the author's most recent novels, including Fury (2001), Shalimar the Clown (2005) and The Enchantress of Florence (2008). It reviews Rushdie's texts in the light of recent research and critical developments and focuses on Rushdie as a novelist in the context of migration, postcolonialism and globalisation.

The book covers the 'Rushdie Affair', indicating that the situation surrounding The Satanic Verses is more intricate than simply 'freedom of expression versus Islamic fundamentalism'. It contains an updated bibliography and helpful new chronology to aid study.

In surveying Rushdie's complicated writing career and the innovative and, later, 'popular' nature of his art, Prof Goonetilleke provides fresh and original readings of all of the writer's work.

The lucid and approachable study is an essential introduction to Salman Rushdie, rendering a notoriously 'difficult' author accessible to students, scholars and general readers alike.

D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kelaniya and has also held various academic posts in the UK and Europe.

He is a well-established critic of twentieth-century and postcolonial literature, and the leading authority on Sri Lankan English literature.

Bhava Athare Gandhabbaya

Bhadraji Mahinda Jayatilleke's latest book Bhava Athare Gandhabbaya was launched as a Sarasavi publication recently. It is the authentic Sinhala translation of Dr. Michael Newton's best seller titled Journey of Souls.

It is essential reading for those who wish to know what happens after death.

Kandulu Tharanaya

Thilaka Kudahetti's latest Sinhala novel titled Kandula Tharanaya was launched at the Dayawansa Jayakody Bookshop, Colombo 10 recently.

Kudahetti is the author of several other books including Atanpahura, Akala Meghaya, Durga Tharanaya, Neela Desa Pura, Kulagei Vilanguva, Vathura, Bharatha Yogin Saha Isivarain Samaga and Bharatha Maha Rishi Ramana. It is a Dayawansa Jayakody publication.

Monthe Christho Situvaraya

R.P. Wijesinghe's latest book titled Monthe Christho Situvaraya was launched at the Dayawansa Jayakody Bookshop, Colombo recently. It is a Dayawansa Jayakody Publication.

Aithihasika Sithulpavva

Ruravidya Chakravarthi, Puravidya Paryeshanasuri Ven Ellawala Medhananda Thera's Aithihasika Sithulpavva will be launched at the Dayawansa Jayakody Bookshop, Colombo 10 on April 23 at 10 a.m.

It is a Dayawansa Jayakody publication.