{"product_id":"the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida-winner-of-the-booker-prize-2022-9781914502064","title":"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022  A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by 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.  Ten years after his prizewinning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka's foremost authors, Karunatilaka is back with a rip-roaring epic, full of mordant wit and disturbing truths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFizzes with energy, imagery and ideas against a broad, surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars. * The Booker judges *\u003cbr\u003eRecalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls or Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita ... Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's history * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant ... rollicking ... a pleasure to read. Karunatilaka writes with tinder-dry wit and an unfaltering ear for prose cadences. -- Kate McLoughlin * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eOutstanding ... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade * New European *\u003cbr\u003eAn exuberant whodunnit ...There can't be many novels that simultaneously bring to mind Agatha Christie, Salman Rushdie and John le Carré - but this one does * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis magic realist (and often funny) novel fizzes with energy and ideas... Imagine a mash-up of Stranger Things and Salman Rushdie -- Robbie Millen * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eShehan Karunatilaka's epic novel is a powerful evocation of Sri Lanka's dark and brutal past -- Lucy Popescu * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is dazzling. Shehan Karunatilaka's use of Sri Lankan folk mythology is truly original ... human and non-human monsters equally terrify. And yet Karunatilaka's exuberant language and humour keeps this book buoyant and a joy to read -- Shyam Selvadurai, author of Funny Boy\u003cbr\u003eA brave and brilliantly inventive novel, full of energy, about a mad bad world in a dark time -- Romesh Gunesekera, author of Reef and Monkfish Moon\u003cbr\u003eShehan Karunatilaka's narrative is breathtakingly kaleidoscopic * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eAudacious, original and perfectly formed -- Suzanne Harrington * Writers Mosaic *\u003cbr\u003eA roaring talent ...Throw yourself into the arms of this book, relish its wild phantasmagorical ride. It's the most worthy Booker winner for many years -- Neil Mackay * Herald *","brand":"Sort of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52091280490839,"sku":"9781914502064","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida-winner-of-the-booker-prize-2022-9781914502064","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}