![]() ![]() “It is an entirely serious philosophical romp that takes the reader to ‘the world’s dark heart’ - the murderous horrors of civil war Sri Lanka. This is a metaphysical thriller, an afterlife noir that dissolves the boundaries not just of different genres, but of life and death, body and spirit, east and west. ![]() Neil MacGregor, chair of the judges, said: “What the judges particularly admired and enjoyed in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida was the ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques. The Booker Prize judges called it “a whodunnit and a race against time, full of ghosts, gags and a deep humanity”. Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilake was adjudged the winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, a dark comic mystery set amid the murderous mayhem of his home country Sri Lanka’s civil war in 1990. ![]()
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