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. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. Maali Almeida―war photographer, gambler, and closet queen―has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office.
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.Ĭolombo, 1990. Named a Best Fiction book of 2022 by the Washington Post, Times (UK), Financial Times, and The Guardian.One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022.
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