If the moon smiled
எழுதியவர் Chandani Lokuge
- வெளியீட்டு ஆண்டு (இந்த பதிப்பு): 2000
- முதல் வெளியீட்டு ஆண்டு: 2000
- வெளியீட்டு வகை: Book
- மொழி: English
- ISBN-13: 9780140284720
- நூலகம்: Pusthakalaya · Washington, D. C.
- சேர்க்கை எண் (Accession): 2007-01-18-01
- அழைப்பு எண் (Call number): PR9440.9.L65 I3 2000
- வெளியீட்டாளர்: Penguin Books
- வெளியீட்டு இடம்: New Delhi
- கொள்முதல் தேதி: 2007-01-18
- அசல் விலை: 600.00 LKR
- முคัญ வார்த்தைகள்: 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.