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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox book Apē Gama (Sinhala:අපේ ගම, Tamil:எங்கள் கிராமம்) (lit. Our Village)[1] is a semi-autobiographical book by Sri Lankan author Martin Wickramasinghe detailing the narrator's experiences as a child in Southern Province, Sri Lanka. Initially published in 1940,[1] it was translated into English in 1968 as Lay Bare the Roots. It is seventeen chapters long.

Plot

A young boy growing up in a village in Ceylon and how he deals with rapid economic and social changes that are going on around him.[2][3]

Reception

Charles Hallisey in Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia states that the narrator is "a villager, unself-consciously secure in his local experiences of the world to such a degree that by nature he was 'literary'." "...this villager becomes a tutor to urbanized authors and readers, who must unlearn what they have been taught in school in order to regain the cultural authenticity that survives in the village."[4]

The work was well received by the English educated people of Sri Lanka.[5]

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