The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 [electronic resource]
Karunatilaka, Shehan2022
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 A brave and brilliantly inventive novel, full of energy, about a mad bad world in a dark time – Romesh Gunesekera An exuberant whodunnit ...There can't be many novels that simultaneously bring to mind Agatha Christie, Salman Rushdie and John le Carré - but this one does ― The Times A searing, mordantly funny, state-of-the- nation satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by 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 Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time when scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts who cluster around him can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. 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. . Ten years after his prizewinning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka's foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back.The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a scathing, rip- roaring epic. It proves that the best fiction can offer the deeper truth.
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Author:
Karunatilaka, Shehan, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : Sort Of Books, 2022
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Shehan Karunatilaka is the author of the multi-award winning 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.
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9781908745910
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English
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578087