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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2022Moderate readFast pace
★ Booker Prize, 2022
A dead photographer in civil-war Sri Lanka
In 1990 Maali Almeida, a gay war photographer and gambler, wakes up dead. He has seven moons to find out who killed him and to lead someone to photographs that would expose the horrors of Sri Lanka's civil war. It was published in India in 2020 as Chats with the Dead, and it won the 2022 Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Maali Almeida, a photographer, and the ghosts of Colombo.
World
Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1990.
What makes it different
It is a ghost story and a murder mystery during a civil war.
Feel
Darkly comic and gripping.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaWikipedia