"Evenings On A Farm Near Dikanka"- tanslated by me

 "මෙම කෘතිය "නිකොලොයි ගොගොල්" විසින් රචිත (1829–32) පළවෙනිම කෘතිය වේ. ඔහු මෙම කෘතිය මගින් ඔහුගේ ආදරණීය යුක්රේනයත් ඔහුගේ ළමා කාලය හා නව යොවුන් වියත් වචනයෙන් විස්තර කරයි. ඔහුගේ වීරයන් වන්නේ විනෝදකාමී හා ධෛර්යය සම්පන්න තරුණයන් මෙන්ම යුක්රේනයේ ලස්සන කාන්තාවන්ය. ගොගොල් යුක්රේන් ජනතාවගේ ජනප්‍රවාද හා සම්ප්‍රදායන් උකහා ගන්නා අතර ඒවා සිත් ඇදගන්නාසුළු කථාවලින් හා හාස්‍යයෙන් පිරි ඇති බව අපට කියා දෙයි. 

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (Russian: «Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки») is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1829–32. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol was twenty-two.

The Story Teller- කතාන්දර කියන්නී

 

Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can’t, and they become companions.

Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shameful secret—one that nobody else in town would ever suspect—and asks Sage for an extraordinary favour. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. With her own identity suddenly challenged, and the integrity of the closest friend she’s ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations she’s made about her life and her family. When does a moral choice become a moral imperative? And where does one draw the line between punishment and justice, forgiveness and mercy?

In this searingly honest novel, Jodi Picoult gracefully explores the lengths we will go in order to protect our families and to keep the past from dictating the future.

Shadow

When a western dog shows up outside the caves in Afghanistan where Aman lives with his mother, Aman is initially repulsed – it is not customary for people to keep dogs as pets in his part of the world. But when Aman and his mother finally decide to make a bid for freedom, the dog Aman has called Shadow will not leave their side. Soon it becomes clear: the destinies of boy and dog are linked, and always will be…