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Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almedia (2nd Hand Paperback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9781914502071
Synopsis
The Booker Prize Winner 2022.
A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's 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 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.
Sri Lanka's foremost author delivers a rip-roaring epic, full of mordant wit and disturbing truths.
With added Map of Colombo 1990 as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good
- Category : Fiction - Modern Mainstream Fiction
- Published : 2022 (This Edition 2023 - Sort of Books)
- ISBN : 9781914502071
- SKU : B003186
- PPC : SP300gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Gogol and Bulgakov . . . Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's history.' - The Guardian.
'Outstanding . . . the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade.' - New European.
'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.
'This magic realist (and often funny) novel fizzes with energy and ideas. Imagine a mash-up of Stranger Things and Salman Rushdie.' - Robbie Millen, The Times.
'Shehan Karunatilaka's epic novel is a powerful evocation of Sri Lanka's dark and brutal past.' - Lucy Popescu, Financial Times.
'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is dazzling. Shehan Karunatilaka's use of Sri Lankan folk mythology is truly original . . . human and non-human monsters equally terrify. And yet Karunatilaka's exuberant language and humour keeps this book buoyant and a joy to read.' - Shyam Selvadurai, author of Funny Boy.
'A brave and brilliantly inventive novel, full of energy, about a mad bad world in a dark time.' - Romesh Gunesekera, author of Reef and Monkfish Moon.
'Shehan Karunatilaka's narrative is breathtakingly kaleidoscopic.' - Financial Times.
'Audacious, original and perfectly formed.' - Suzanne Harrington, Writers Mosaic.
The Author
Shehan Karunatilaka is a Sri Lankan writer. He grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore.
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