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Winner of the Booker Prize 2022 A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka\'s civil war Colombo, 1990. - New European. the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade. - Guardian Outstanding...
Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Gogol and Bulgakov.
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.
But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali.
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.
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 gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. &bull
Winner of the Booker Prize 2022 A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka\'s civil war Colombo, 1990
