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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
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Beschreibung
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023
Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae
A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, 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.
Sri Lanka's foremost author delivers a rip-roaring epic, full of mordant wit and disturbing truths.
'Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Gogol and Bulgakov.' Guardian
'Outstanding... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade.' New European
Rezensionen
Shehan Karunatilaka's epic novel is a powerful evocation of Sri Lanka'
<i>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida </i>is dazzling. Shehan Karunatilaka's use of Sri Lankan folk mythology is truly original ... human and non-human monsters equally terrify. And yet Karunatilaka'
A brave and brilliantly inventive novel, full of energy, about a mad bad world in a dark time
Brilliant ... rollicking ... a pleasure to read. Karunatilaka writes with tinder-dry wit and an unfaltering ear for prose cadences.
Shehan Karunatilaka'
Fizzes with energy, imagery and ideas against a broad, surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars.
Outstanding ... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade
An exuberant whodunnit ...There can'
Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's <i>Dead Souls</i> or Mikhail Bulgakov's <i>The Master and Margarita ... </i>Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country'
Audacious, original and perfectly formed
This magic realist (and often funny) novel fizzes with energy and ideas... Imagine a mash-up of <i>Stranger Things</i> and Salman Rushdie
