Press Release
October 15th, 2003, marks the 5th Anniversary of the First Electronic Novel from Asia , the saadhu testament, by daya dissanayake.
The website http://www.saadhu.com where the saadhu testament is available for free reading, and also contains information about Sri Lanka, specially Sigiriya
kat bitha, the first book by daya dissanayake, received the State Literary Award for the Best English Novel for 1998. kat bitha is based on Kasyapa's Sigiriya of the 5th century seen through the eyes of a young Buddhist monk of the 10th century.
the saadhu testment is the 2nd novel to be published by daya dissanayake. It is a story about faith, and how it could be made into a big business, but also how it helps many people, around the world.
The third novel, the healer & the drug pusher, was published in 2000, by iUniverse.com, and happens to be the First Novel from Sri Lanka to be published using Print-on-Demand technology. The novel was serialized in the Sunday Island in 2001. It is a novel based around the Health Care System in 10th century Sri Lanka, told around a Buddhist Monastery and hospital in Jaffna and an eye hospital in the South.
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