• ‘A winter of content’ – Financial Times

• ‘Profound and sensible’ – Kharkiv Observer

• ‘Captivating and hard to put down’ – Myanmar Times

When the Soviet Union collapses overnight, followed by painful separation from his wife, Ivan finds himself in the wrong place on earth, and he walks away with his button accordion into nature. Later, he falls in love with Nadia, who defies her life after surviving polio and fathers Olga. Life continues to follow the changing seasons accompanying Ivan deeper into nature with his lifelong companion button accordion, Bayan-melody of ageing in times of change.

Sri Lankan novelist Pramudith D. Rupasinghe is the author of two other fictions Behind the Eclipse, Footprints in Obscurity. Bayan is his third work of fiction.