The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Name: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Author: Shehan Karunatilaka
ISBN: 9781324064831

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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida won the 2022 Booker Prize and was a National Bestseller, named one of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2022, an NPR Book We Loved in 2022, and a Best Fiction Book of 2022 by the Washington Post, Times (UK), Financial Times, and The Guardian. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan 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 serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. 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. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka.

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