Footprints in Obscurity: A Living Story

by Pramudith D. Rupasinghe

A young man who was living his childhood dreams traces a wondrous and varied route through twenty-nine countries across Africa. Footprints in Obscurity is a story of endurance that is a testimony to how childhood dreams shape one’s adulthood.

406 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2016

About the author

Winner of Golden Aster Book, World Literary Prize 2020, Pramudith Rupasinghe is a Sri Lankan novelist known as The Writer Without Borders. He chooses to set his stories outside of his culture, country, and people and writes living in the locations where his stories are set.
He also works as a humanitarian diplomat for the last 18 years, and most of his stories are inspired by the people facing adversities as he has had the opportunity to explore the unexplored side of human life, connect with cultures that have not been in touch with the external world, and experience the emotions of people who have been through trials. Trials are more distressing than words could ever describe. Through his experiences, he endeavours to relate their meaningful stories, giving those who have been forgotten, sometimes even ignored, an opportunity to be heard.
Pramudith is internationally known for his fiction ‘Behind the Eclipse’ and ‘Bayan’; his books have been translated into several languages and launched internationally.

Reviews

[Sanja Podrovic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book. Simply inspiring.

[Yuliia Rupasinghe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life changing...

[Alexandre White · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one is transforming. I felt I was on a journey across whole Africa. I liked the author has woven the book using a cross cultural thread. Amazing.

[Roger Martines · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was just like watching a documentary. Just like national geographic. Good book with a different style. Just cinematic.

[Agneta Patterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice story and well woven but there are some printing errors, I guess next edition will gather more readers. A book with a lot of potentials and aspirations.

[Rayan Raymonds · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually, after reading the Behind the Eclipse, I was persuaded to read Footprints in Obscurity, I liked the book and specially the way its written, as if the reader is watching a documentary. Completely a new style of narrating a story.

[Christana Ferdinendas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite interesting book but I liked the other books of the author, specially the fictions. Footprints in obscurity being a non fiction seems not really reflecting the skillful writing style that the author has demonstrated in the books like Bayan, Termites and Behind the Eclipse.