{"product_id":"the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida-winner-of-the-booker-prize-2022","title":"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka Winner of the Booker Prize 2022","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColombo, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTen years after his prizewinning novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChinaman\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eestablished 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Fizzes with energy, imagery and ideas against a broad, surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars' The Booker judges\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eor Mikhail Bulgakov's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e... Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's history'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Outstanding... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew European\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Sort of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60246188458318,"sku":"SNG9550","price":28.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0902\/9022\/5486\/files\/612_ETEa-SL._SL500.jpg?v=1785331368","url":"https:\/\/narcomics.net\/products\/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida-winner-of-the-booker-prize-2022","provider":"Narcomics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}