If the moon smiled
By Chandani Lokuge
- Publication Year (This Edition): 2000
- Year of First Publication: 2000
- Publication Type: Book
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9780140284720
- Library: Pusthakalaya · Washington, D. C.
- Accession: 2007-01-18-01
- Call number: PR9440.9.L65 I3 2000
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Place of Publication: New Delhi
- Acquisition Date: 2007-01-18
- Original Price: 600.00 LKR
- Keywords: Sri Lanka -- Fiction.
'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.