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The seven moons of maali almeida reviews5/26/2023 the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade. 'Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Gogol and Bulgakov.' Guardian Sri Lanka's foremost author delivers a rip-roaring epic, full of mordant wit and disturbing truths. 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. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. Considering where the country is todaybankrupt, facing food insecurity, and with another. 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. 4/5: (Original review published in The Sri Lankan Anchorman newspaper in Feb 2023) A magic-realism tragi-comedy covering one of the darkest periods of modern Sri Lankan history when the country was embroiled in two civil wars in the late 1980s, both leeching the blood and talent of the nation. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis PersonaeĪ magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil warĬolombo, 1990.
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