Upul Shantha Sannasgala’s novel ‘Amma’ or Mother book was launched on 24 August 2014 at Youth Center Maharagama. This book was previously published in ‘Lanka’ newspaper. Upul Shantha Sannasgala is a popular writer and Sinhala teacher.
According to W.A. Wijewardena, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the reader of this book is led to believe that it is Sannasgala’s life-story that is described in ‘Mother’ but it is not so. He has liberally drawn on his unpleasant experiences as a child and a youngster in a post-independence village in Sri Lanka. Yet, it is not a one-for-one autobiography. At most, it is ‘facts converted into fiction’ displaying the features of a semi-autobiography.
W.A. Wijewardena writes in Financial Times described that the story in this book is wound around a woman in Haputale area where life had been a real drudgery for poor women in remote mountainous villages. This woman, having been married to a ‘drunkard, wife-beating, petty-thief-type, good-for-nothing man,’ has given birth to nearly a dozen of children. She does not treat all her children equally: some are favoured, some are hated and some are just ignored. Thus, Sannasgala’s ‘Mother’ defies the role-model mother living in popular beliefs.
The story is told by her last-born son or ‘Bada Pissa’ who is feeble, disabled and sick. It is a miracle that this little boy had survived and not died at his infancy. He is not born with any of the desired configurations that guarantee the survival of a child. His life is full of hardships, unquenched hunger and replete with family support. Except for Mother’s care, he is like a tree by the side of the road exposed to all natural hazards.
Read Review of this book by Dr Madhuranga Fernando, Senior Lecture, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
https://studentlanka.com/si/2014/10/01/%e0%b6%85%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%8f-%e0%b6%8b%e0%b6%b4%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%bd%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b7%81%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%ad-%e0%b7%83%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%8a/
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