Title: The Noble Lord
Author: Gihan Tennakoon
Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fantasy Literature has come a long way even the next generation embraces it.
If the fantasy literature isn’t an authentic world, we all want to live in there since it takes us into a new world that gives opportunity to think in a different way and to act as different characters. We forget our sorrow, boredom, pain and weaknesses in there and make our lives better than real lives by thinking in a noble way. By using magical power how to help each other, how to rule and control our lives as well as others, these all are inevitable in the fantasy literature, even though it is not real.In Sri Lanka there is a new wave of fantasy literature that has appeared during this COVID-19 pandemic era and one of those rising fantasy novels is the Gihan Tennakoon’s The Noble Lord.
The Story of The Noble Lord centers on a young man who have assumed the title of “Lord” which is a position similar to the “Radala” during the Kandyan Period of Sri Lanka. This young lord’s name is LothricGlutenberg who was born in an empire called Lothricia where is a large civil war is taking place. As a Lord, Lothric must be in charge of his responsibilities for his Domain’s people and forthe people he love.The Story is full of twists and turns that are completely unexpectable. You will get an experience like in no other novel as you follow the character of Lothric and other characters. The Characters of this story were given life in such a way that we humans can connect with them deeply as this story follows hardships, tragedies and the psychology of each character.
Professor ASB Wijekoon has the following to state:
“In the Cornucopia of literature GihanTennakoon’s “The Noble Lord” makes it presence felt in a refreshing manner, with a style of narration that is a fusion of the old and new. He shares his fantasy with a smooth flow of characters changing with circumstances and circumstances changing with characters. Sometimes they appear as subjects of pure fantasy at other times true of life, all of them painted vividly and in strength through the storyline.The reader is woven into the story and caught in a game of having to decide what is right and what is wrong and who the villain and who the hero is.”
Arjuna Seneviratne comments: “It was the perfect combination of many loved novels and beautiful concepts. Also the way many cultures of the world mixed into the story was really well done. The characters were given life in such a way that we connect with them deeply.”
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Reviewed by Nipuna Wickramage
