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First Utterance

by Theena Kumaragurunathan

Genre-bending and ambitious.

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A (novel) that would redefine Sri Lankan literature.

Three men, deemed mad in a world where madness isn’t tolerated, whose collective fate will bring a country to its knees and herald the end of time itself.

The critically acclaimed, award-winning debut by Theena Kumaragurunathan was hailed as ‘a book that could possibly even help redirect, redefine, and refine Sri Lankan Literature’ (roar.lk), ‘so poetic that it conflates myth and reality into wholly specific and original political satire’ (Sunday Times), and ‘ambitious and genre-bending …a dystopian novel in which the sane and the insane have traded places, this novel uses satire and sarcasm to ask important questions’ (Judges’ citation, Fairway Sri Lanka National Literary Awards).

First Utterance is the first chapter of The Miragian Cycles, a series of novels centered around the trials of a fictional country named Mirage.

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