'Outstanding. the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade. Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's history' Guardian Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. 'Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls or Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. 'Fizzes with energy, imagery and ideas against a broad, surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars' The Booker judges In Shehan Karunatilakas novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, protagonist and second person narrator Maali Almeida wakes up in the Afterlife after he is. 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. 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. We met Mr Karunatilaka on the 20th October at London Southbank Centre and got this copy personally signed. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka - SIGNED, LINED, DATED AND LOCATED UK. Details about SIGNED The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Booker Prize Winner 2022. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him.Īt 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. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office.

A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil warĬolombo, 1990.

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