It proves that the best fiction can offer the deeper truth. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a scathing, rip- roaring epic. Ten years after his prizewinning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back. 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. 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.īut even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. The novel is set in 1980s Colombo, Sri Lanka. Perplexed and in a strange celestial office he doesnt recognize, Maali decides to investigate who killed him and why they killed him. One day, Maali is suddenly and mysteriously killed and dismembered. His dismembered body is sinking in the Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a novel by the Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka. Shehan Karunatilaka's novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is written from the protagonist Maali Almeida's second person point of view. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is set in 1989 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and follows a war photographer named Maali Almeida. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. A searing, mordantly funny, state-of-the- nation satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war.Ĭolombo, 1990.
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