Our Village)[1] is a semi-autobiographical book by Sri Lankan author Martin Wickramasinghe detailing the narrator's experiences as a child in Southern Province, Sri Lanka.

Initially published in 1940,[1] it was translated into English in 1968 as Lay Bare the Roots.

A young boy growing up in a village in Ceylon and how he deals with rapid economic and social changes that are going on around him.

[2][3] Charles Hallisey in Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia states that the narrator is "a villager, unself-consciously secure in his local experiences of the world to such a degree that by nature he was 'literary'."

"[4] The work was well received by the English educated people of Sri Lanka.