{"product_id":"9781475939576","title":"Village Life in the Forties: Memories of a Lankan Expatriate","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis collection of sketches, first published in the \u003ci\u003eCeylon Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e from June of 1966 to April of 1967, narrates the real-life stories of the people who made Pathegama what it was in the mid-twentieth century. It includes sketches of \u003ci\u003eMyna\u003c\/i\u003e, the new village head-man; \u003ci\u003eVel Vidane\u003c\/i\u003e, an unctuous official and the irrigation headman; cowards \u003ci\u003eWala Semba\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNaamba\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSingappuru Basunnehe\u003c\/i\u003e, the goldsmith; \u003ci\u003eKankanama\u003c\/i\u003e, the cinnamon peeler; \u003ci\u003eKalu Appu\u003c\/i\u003e, the fierce burglar; \u003ci\u003eRedi Nenda\u003c\/i\u003e, the humble washerwoman; \u003ci\u003eMenike Nenda\u003c\/i\u003e, a village beauty; and \u003ci\u003eKunu Nachchile\u003c\/i\u003e, the witchlike animal lover.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemonstrating the Buddhist\/Daoist principle that unity and diversity are inextricably interconnected, \u003ci\u003eVillage Life in the Forties\u003c\/i\u003e provides not only a social history, but also a greater global under-standing of the life and times of rural Ceylonese during and around World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144419852528,"sku":"9781475939576","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781475939576_p0.jpg?v=1763606584","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781475939576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}