![]() ![]() Readers are catapulted into the world of the lost, disgruntled, and vengeful souls who are held in the ‘in between’ for seven moons. Set in 1980s Sri Lanka, the novel’s debauched protagonist, Maali, is a gambler, an atheist, a gay man, and a talented war photographer who has borne witness to the atrocities and brutality of Sri Lanka’s multiple insurrections.Īt the very start of the novel, a deceased Maali wakes up in what appears to be a government office of the afterlife, and what follows is a sardonic, absurd, and satirical whirlwind of a novel. Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, Seven Moons is unlike anything I have ever read before. ![]() ![]() Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lankan author of Chinaman, returns to the literary limelight ten years later with The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. ![]()
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