If the moon smiled
By: Chandani Lokugé
Publisher: Arcadia, the general books' imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd
Published: 2017
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781925588231
Subjects: Sri Lankan literature (English); Sri Lankans; Fiction; Foreign countries
Description: I go down to the river, unheeding my mother's disapproval. I dip into the lazily flowing water. Here, at least, nothing has changed.The bath-cloth balloons around my body and I press it down. I loosen my hair and let it spread where it will. I open my hands upwards on the water's surface, languidly remembering. All, that is familiar. The promise. The promise of life. As a young woman in Sri Lanka, Manthri marvels at the promise of life and yearns for a future of fulfilled dreams. Years on, she finds herself in a loveless marriage, in a foreign land, and estranged from her two Australian children. Torn between an idyllic past to which she cannot return and a present that breaks her heart, she never loses touch with those dreams, nor abandons her passionate enchantment with life.
Notes: "First published by Penguin Books Australia 2000" --Title page verso.