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of the best books of childhood, Truly beautiful.

The sad truth of how the class difference affected the normal life of children is captured in the perfect manner.
So often I wondered why is it necessary, today after aboutdecades, I'm still asking why, The children has

no need for negative teachings as such but the parents, the society will force them in.
It's a tragedy how the society trampled the beautiful friendship between Nimal and Sunil as they leave their childhood behind.


Simple but deep, enjoyable at any stage in life, A true gem in sinhalese literature, Our authors should write more books like this without writing the spiteful lame books that comes out these days.
Read this book almostyears ago and loved it to bits at that time! Loved this, this is a mustread if ur a Sri Lankan kid : a Good book I don't remember what happens in this book.
I read this when I wasormaybe, . . A must read piece of sinhala literature, especially for children,
සමජ පත දකකට අයත වණ හඳම යහළවන අඹ යහළවන දදනකග නබඳණ මතදම තළන සමජ පත ගටම මනව පළබඹ කළ ඉත රසවත කතවක. I started to read this story for my son, I wanted to give him a glimpse of my childhood and Sri Lankan culture,
But ended up reading the story by myself only because the story line and the emotions portrayed are little complex to his young mind.
may be have to take outoryears later,
Its a beautiful story, intelligently portraying how Sri Lankan mind works, . . I have watched the Teledrama and read the translation now, . . couldn't stop tears while reading,
But. . a few references to Sri Lankan Tamils are little concerning, . . e. g. The author describes the children begging in the train, singing Hindi songs as Tamil kids and after that Sunil and Nimal sings a song of a Sinhala king.
Tamil kids singing Hindi songs in Kandy Colombo line is not the reality and even so, why the author has to mention the race of the begging children whereas everywhere else in the story the estate workers are mentioned as colonists couldn't understand the reasoning behind it and didn't want to ponder on this too much and lose the beautiful emotions this book offered.
Although Amba Yahaluwo is generally considered a children's novel, Amba Yahaluwo is a story that sets valuable lessons for everyone, big or small.
But T. B. Ilangaratne has tailored even some of the more complex social issues to suit the little ones here.
What stands out here is the strong friendship between Sunil, a boy from an elite family, and Nimal, a child from a poor family, beyond their social status.


Sunil's father used to take bribes to get the money he needed for his luxury lifestyle.
Eventually, he becomes addicted to gambling, is suspended and their family is left destitute, In the end, they are helped by Nimal, whom they have insulted, Nimal gets an education and develops, Eventually, they lose their Walawwa palace,

Here the author skillfully points out in an exemplary and beautiful story that your wrong actions come through the karma behind you.
A Novel for children. I loved the Sinhala novel, loved the TV series and also loved the English translation which I borrowed from a student.
It brought back lot of old memories of the friendship between Nimal and Sunil Sudhu Appo, annoying grandmother, haughty sister, all the characters we loved to love and hate.
I really feel now this is a “coming of age” novel where the two friends must pass their innocent childhood and adolescence to face the facts.
The socioeconomic classifications that surrounding them will never let them be friend as they want to, Nimal is “other” of the Walauva where as Sunil is the son of a privileged Civil Servant.


Truly a wonderful a "coming of age" novel, Try this translation. It's really good. ටකර බණඩ ඉලගරතන මහනවර අසල හතරලයදද නමත ගම උපත ලබයපබරවරවනදනය. පළමව ගම පසලත ,පසව මහනවර ශනත අනතන වදයලයත ,අධයපනය ලබ හතම තම ජවතය ඇරඹව ලපකරවක වශයන. ලඛකයක,නටය රචකයක,නටය නෂපදකයක චතරපට දබස රචකයක,නළවක,දශපලඥයක මනම වතතය සමත නයකයක ලසද ඉමහත කරතයට පත වය. නදහසන පස දශක තනක ශර ලකව දශපලන කරලය කප පනන පදගලයක ව හතම අසව දශකය මද භගය දශපලන ලකයන වශරම ගතතය. ඉන කලකට පස එනමමය මසවනද සදහටම දස පය ගත ඉලගරතනයන ජවත කලයටම කළ එක දයක වය. ඒ ලවමය. .