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Isn't that true ? ' • It's true , aiya . ' · And what can I do , a town man , with all these chenas ? I ought to have a gambaraya . ' ' Yes , you want a gambaraya . ' ' So I thought , and I thought too , “ This Babun is the only man in ...
Isn't that true ? ' • It's true , aiya . ' · And what can I do , a town man , with all these chenas ? I ought to have a gambaraya . ' ' Yes , you want a gambaraya . ' ' So I thought , and I thought too , “ This Babun is the only man in ...
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Her first terror when she had been told of what her father had done had given place to bewilderment , but when she saw him in charge of the police sergeant she ran to him with a cry : Is it true , Appochchi ; is it true , what they say ...
Her first terror when she had been told of what her father had done had given place to bewilderment , but when she saw him in charge of the police sergeant she ran to him with a cry : Is it true , Appochchi ; is it true , what they say ...
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It was true when they said that I was a useless man in the village . To creep through the leaves like a jackal ; yes , I can do that ; but what else ? Isn't the bad crop in the chena rightly called Silindu's crop .
It was true when they said that I was a useless man in the village . To creep through the leaves like a jackal ; yes , I can do that ; but what else ? Isn't the bad crop in the chena rightly called Silindu's crop .
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User Review - kaitanya64 - LibraryThingSet in colonial Ceylon, this novel is vivid and readable. While the author clearly illustrates a particular culture and time, that of a rural family in the "dry" forest area, where life is ... Read full review
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User Review - Steve38 - LibraryThingDear me but this is a depressing book. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong for the main characters. Written from the point of view of impoverished, uneducated jungle dwellers in Sri Lanka by ... Read full review
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aiya Aiyo Arachchi asked Babehami Babun became began bring brother brought called carrying charm chena child clear cloth comes compound court crop dark daughter dead deer devil died evil eyes face father fear felt Fernando followed fool girl give given Hamadoru hand hang head headman hear heard Hinnihami hunter interpreter judge jungle Kamburupitiya Karlinahami kill knew Korala laughed leave lies listen live looked Mahatmaya mind months morning mother Mudalali never night once passed path prison Punchi Menika Punchirala rain rice road round seemed seen side silence Silindu slowly speak stand stood strange talk tell temple thing thought told took track trees trouble true turned understand vederala village voice waited walked watched wife wild wind woman women
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Village in the Jungle |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Hansa, 1972 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Nov 2017 |
| Length | 307 pages |
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