Palitha Ganewatta was born in Sri Lanka and obtained his Ph.D. from Moscow Friendship University in 1987. He migrated to Australia in 1992 where he made his home. He was employed by Australian Federal Government and also worked as a Broadcaster and Journalist in Special Broadcasting Service in Australia (SBS) for 21 years. He has translated Anton Chekhov’s short stories from original Russian to his mother tongue, Sinhalese. He has published short stories, novels and poems in Sinhalese language and currently engaged in translating Reymond Carver’s American short stories into his mother tongue.
This novel tells the story of three generations of an Australian-Sri Lankan migrant family. After a bomb explodes near two leading schools in the city of Colombo, he persuades his wife that for the sake of their children they must leave and start a new life in Australia. After her mother passes away...