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When author Shelton A. Gunaratne was born in January of 1940 in Pathegama, Sri Lanka, life was simple for the poor people in this sparsely populated village. But it was this village that raised him. Through twenty-six biographical sketches of some of the village's most colorful characters, Gunaratne paints a portrait of what life was like in this rural setting.

This collection of sketches, first published in the "Ceylon Daily NewsMyna," the new village head-man; "Vel Vidane," an unctuous official and the irrigation headman; cowards "Wala Semba" and "Naamba"; "Singappuru Basunnehe," the...

When author Shelton A. Gunaratne was born in January of 1940 in Pathegama, Sri Lanka, life was simple for the poor people in this sparsely populated village. But it was this village that raised him. Through twenty-six biographical sketches of some of the village's most colorful characters, Gunaratne paints a portrait of what life was like in this rural setting.

This collection of sketches, first published in the "Ceylon Daily NewsMyna," the new village head-man; "Vel Vidane," an unctuous official and the irrigation headman; cowards "Wala Semba" and "Naamba"; "Singappuru Basunnehe," the...