Vanished Trails

The other important event was publication of the Russian language translation of Martin Wickramasinghe’s novel “Gamperaliya”. What struk me was the close kinship of “Gamperaliya” in its theme, subject, high novelisticqualities and creative power to di Lampedusa’s novel, the first Italian edition of which was published in 1958, fourteen years after the publication of the first Sinhala edition of Martin Wickramasinghe’s “Gamperaliya”.