The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka · 2022
Literary Fiction · ranked #229 in category
Winner · The Booker Prize, 2022
Maali Almeida — a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay man — wakes up dead in a celestial visa office in 1990 Colombo, with seven moons to discover who killed him and to retrieve photographs that could end Sri Lanka's civil war. Karunatilaka's Booker Prize-winning novel uses ghosts, bureaucratic afterlife and dark comedy to confront the atrocities of Sri Lanka's conflict.
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- Shehan Karunatilaka
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- Essential Read
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