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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022
Shehan Karunatilaka
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 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 ... Read more
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Sort of Books
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781914502064
SKU
9781914502064
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Ref
99-1
About Shehan Karunatilaka
Shehan Karunatilaka is the multi-award winning author of Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is his second novel. Born in Colombo, he studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore.
Reviews for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022
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
Brilliant ... rollicking ... Read more
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
Brilliant ... rollicking ... Read more