Lalanayanaya - Upul Shantha Sannasgala

History is a creative saga woven with phantom threads of heroism, nationalism, racism and sexism. It had been the place where many found the origins of their stories and vice versa. In such a context where history is considered as a fountain of ideas, Lalanayanaya plays a dual role. As an epic re-recreation of the forgone history, it indeed conforms with the norms of chronicles while unabashedly breaking the boundaries of imagination with many literary devices.

Upul Shantha Sannasgala as the author of this masterpiece, plays a gigantic role in bringing the reader to a serendipitous encounter with his mastery over language which is full of exquisite delicacies of grandiloquence.

Strengthened by the artistry he reproduces, Lalanayanaya is a tale subtly knitted with different shades of gruesome politics. Decorated with the beauty of romance between Rahula thero and pricencess Lokanatha, the author reminds the clichéd “All is fair in love and war” in a sumptuous manner where the reader becomes a lifelong prisoner of this tale.

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