Thirst

by Daya Dissanayake

Some thirst for power. Some thirst for serenity. The former wish to exploit the earth's resources. The latter wish to see their lives as an invisible passage through earth. They fight, sometimes even with their lives to save the earth.

This is a novel which pays tribute to all those people since time immemorial who fought for the future generations and who will continue to fight to prevent the power-hungry from destroying living creatures and the environment for selfish gains.

Read all about the solitary struggle of a Buddhist monk against a king who wishes to build the largest irrigation tank in the country. Read how his sister takes up the fight when he loses it. Does she win? Do the saviors of the earth triumph over the destroyers?

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About the author

Daya Dissanayake is an award winning bi-lingual author, the only person to have won State Literary Award for English Novel twice. He won it for the first time for kat bitha which was his first novel. His second book The Saadhu Testament; is the first electronic novel by an Asian Author. He followed it up by releasing Wessan Novu Wedun also as an enovel thus becoming the first to publish a Sinhala Electronic Novel.

Daya's Chandraratnage Bawantara Charikawa (චන්ද්‍රරත්නගේ භවාන්තර චාරිකාව) was one of the joint winners of the first ever 'Swarna Pusthaka' award for the best Sinhala novel. The same year Evesdropper was recieved the literary award for the best English novel.

To date, daya has published eight novels and a collection of poems. He also contributes regularly to newspapers.

--from the author's website