Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Hardcover, 432 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 4. August 2022 von Sort of Books veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-1-908745-90-3
OCLC-Nummer:: 1192971895
ASIN:: 1908745908
Goodreads:: 57224204

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.

Ten years after his prizewinning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka's foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a searing satire and state-of-the-nation epic that proves yet again that the best fiction offers the deeper truth.

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.

Ten years after his prizewinning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka's foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a searing satire and state-of-the-nation epic that proves yet again that the best fiction offers the deeper truth.

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This was a cool read about the death and afterlife of Maali Almeida, a freelance photographer in Sri Lanka. Maali is a mostly unlikeable character who has a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time and always carrying his camera with him. He dies, we don't know how or why and we spend the bulk of the book jumping between his afterlife and flashbacks to when he was still alive. He's faithful to his friends, even if he doesn't always treat them well, and redeems himself to himself by the end. I liked the fact that it explores the idea of an afterlife that we're all mostly wrong about, yet still weaves in well known elements, such as ghosts, spirits and demons. I don't know much about Sri Lankan mythology, but it seems to draw from it.

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