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THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA - SHEHAN KARUN...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022    LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023   A searing
satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war   Colombo  1990. Maali
Almeida  war photographer  gambler and closet gay  has woken up dead in what seems like a
celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no
idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads  suicide bombers and
hired goons  the list of suspects is depressingly long  as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges
who cluster round can attest.   But even in the afterlife  time is running out for Maali. He
has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden
cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka.  Ten years after his prizewinning novel Chinaman
established him as one of Sri Lanka's foremost authors  Karunatilaka is back with a rip-roaring
epic  full of mordant wit and disturbing truths.   'Fizzes with energy  imagery and ideas
against a broad  surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars' The Booker judges    'Recalls the
mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls or Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and
Margarita ... Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's
history' Guardian    'Outstanding... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a
decade.' New European

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