The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka
Narrated by Shivantha Wijesinha
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Pub Date 10 Nov 2022 | Archive Date 7 Mar 2023
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Description
Winner of the Booker Prize, 2022
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time when scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts who cluster around him 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.
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Advance Praise
"Karunatilaka has a real lightness of touch." (The Observer)
"Celebrate the arrival of the Great Sri Lankan Novel." (The Times)
"This is a metaphysical thriller, an afterlife noir that dissolves the boundaries not just of different genres, but of life and death, body and spirit, east and west. It is an entirely serious philosophical romp that takes the reader to ’the world’s dark heart’ - the murderous horrors of civil war Sri Lanka. And once there, the reader also discovers the tenderness and beauty, the love and loyalty, and the pursuit of an ideal that justify every human life.’ - Neil MacGregor, Chair of the 2022 judges.
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| ISBN | 9781038628947 |
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