The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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Colombo, 1990. War photographer and gambler Maali Almeida wakes up dead in a strange, bureaucratic afterlife. He has no memory of how he died — only that his body was dismembered and sunk in a lake.
Now trapped in the In-Between, Maali has just seven moons (days) to solve the mystery of his death, uncover a web of political corruption, and pass on a set of powerful, hidden photographs that could change the future of Sri Lanka.
But time is running out. Can the dead still change the world of the living?
A darkly comic, brilliantly inventive novel about war, ghosts, memory, and justice from Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka.
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Colombo, 1990. War photographer and gambler Maali Almeida wakes up dead in a strange, bureaucratic afterlife. He has no memory of how he died — only that his body was dismembered and sunk in a lake.
Now trapped in the In-Between, Maali has just seven moons (days) to solve the mystery of his death, uncover a web of political corruption, and pass on a set of powerful, hidden photographs that could change the future of Sri Lanka.
But time is running out. Can the dead still change the world of the living?
A darkly comic, brilliantly inventive novel about war, ghosts, memory, and justice from Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka.
