The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
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A searing story of love and adventure and coming to terms with loss in Sri Lanka
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. 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.
'A festive, exuberant feast of language and storytelling' – Boyd Tonkin
'A mixture of, say, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fernando Pessoa and Sri Lankan arrack…essential to anyone with a taste for maverick genius' – Sunday Times
400 pp. paperback
13.5 x 2.5 x 21.6cm
Published October 2022 by Profile Books