EAN: 9781914502071

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

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022   SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023    Now with added
author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae    A magical
realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's 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. Sri Lanka's foremost author delivers a rip-roaring epic  full of mordant
wit and disturbing truths.    'Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Gogol and Bulgakov.'
Guardian   'Outstanding... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade.' New
European

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