The book Widows World in the East despite its high creativity and sensationalism could be described as a literary message that conveys the acute discriminations the widows in the East undergo. The writer herself a widow has bonded parts of her own life story into this almost incredible tale of a transmigration of souls or atma. The story is mainly enacted in Lanka's Land of Gods (the Ma Oya valley) and a typical oriental ethos runs throughout this tale narrated ...
