![]() ![]() In the afterlife that is similar to an overburdened bureaucratic institution, he is told that he has seven moons – seven nights – before he must take the next step and go “into the light”. The novel begins with him realising that he is dead. He gambled away the rest of his time in casinos or – as he says – with “beautiful boys” and “happy pills”. ![]() The protagonist Maali Almeida has spent his life photographing human atrocities, of which there were more than enough in Sri Lanka in the 1980s. In the end, it is precisely this humour that makes the book special. I had to get used to the kind of macabre humour that is put into contrast with the murderous chaos of Sri Lanka’s civil war. ![]() Diversity trainer, translator and editor of poco.lit.Įven though it’s the winner of last year’s Booker Prize, I have to admit that after the first few pages I thought Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida might be unbearable slapstick. ![]()
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