The Booker Prize 2022-Winner
The Booker Prize 2022-Winner

Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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WINNER OF THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE

A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by 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 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, Karunatilaka is back with a rip-roaring epic, full of mordant wit and disturbing truths.

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What the judges particularly admired and enjoyed in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida was the ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques. -- The 2022 Booker Prize

The South Asian epic we have been waiting for for a decade. Riotous, funny and heartbreaking. It stays with you long after you have finished reading it. -- Mohammed Hanif

The wild horses of Shehan Karunatilaka's imagination run fast, wild and true. -- Jeet Thayil

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka returns with a crackling whodunit a decade after his debut. -- The Indian Express

Karunatilaka's tone is almost in the vein of his literary hero, Kurt Vonnegut, combining the funny and the dreadful in a bleak, black way. -- Open

Impressive . . . a tighter expression of his distinctive prose and an even more glaring mirror of Sri Lanka. -- The Hindu

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