Lakmahal Community Library

Celebrating Sri Lankan Writers! 🇱🇰
This month we are highlighting books from the 2025 Gratiean long list and past winners! 📚

Find "Reading Palms" by Oshanthaka Cabraal on our bookshelves.

📚Book Summary:
Written over the course of a decade, 'Reading Palms' moves through shifting landscapes – both geographical and emotional. Rooted in Sri Lanka’s beauty and brutality, the collection also follows the poet’s path across continents, tracing the fault lines between memory and history, longing and belonging, the political and the personal. Some poems speak from lived experience; others arise from witnessing, imagining, or responding to the lives of others.

Together, they capture the quiet transformations of a life attentive to the world. Like the intimate act of reading a palm, the collection invites close attention, rewarding each return with new insight. Lyrical, experimental, and deeply observant, 'Reading Palms' asks what it means to map lives through language.
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