The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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Publisher Description

An Instant National Bestseller • One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2022 • An NPR Book We Loved in 2022 • Named a Best Fiction Book of 2022 by the Washington Post, Times (UK), Financial Times, and The 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.

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 serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country 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 contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka.

Ten years after his prize-winning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a “thrilling satire” (Economist) and rip-roaring state-of-the-nation epic that offers equal parts mordant wit and disturbing, profound truths.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
November 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
W. W. Norton & Company
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
2.9
MB

Customer Reviews

wynbee ,

Creative

Interesting satire about dysfunctional Sri Lankan warring factions and social life narrated from beyond the grave. The mystery keeps you going, but the political statement tends to get lost in the supernatural. High marks for creativity, but didn’t think it deserved the Booker. Prefer Glory for its exuberance or even Small things like these for its simplicity.

weera singha ,

From a Sri Lankan

Very enlightening and entertaining. Coming from a Sri Lankan kid who saw the turmoil around her not knowing what it meant. Thanks for writing this book

Elle Sweeney ,

I couldn’t put this book down

Incredible.

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