The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com Writing in the post-truth world Sun, 19 Mar 2023 21:10:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177517995 Book Review – The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Shehan Karunatilaka https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2023/04/19/book-review-the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida-by-shehan-karunatilaka/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2023/04/19/book-review-the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida-by-shehan-karunatilaka/#respond Wed, 19 Apr 2023 21:08:17 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=2428

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker. The narrator is a photographic journalist in Sri Lanka who has just died and is negotiating and afterlife in which one has seven days (or moons) to remain on earth as a ghost before entering the Light. The story comments on civil war in Sri Lanka with surreality, satire, and humor. Here’s what Kirkus Reviews says:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/shehan-karunatilaka/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida/

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