![]() ![]() The result is an unexpectedly exhilarating read. This scrupulous clarity of purpose in turn explains why, although the book is never far from the narrow border separating the exuberantly rich from the badly overstuffed, it never crosses to the wrong side. The descriptions of the massacres are done as powerfully unsparing reportage. ![]() However wild it becomes, the magic realism takes place within a well-thought-out framework of what is and isn’t possible. The thriller-like quest for the photos serves up several properly exciting cliff-hangers. Karunatilaka respects the conventions of all the genres that he piles up so extravagantly. Maali Almeidawar photographer, gambler, and closet queenhas woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. There is, however, more to the book than that. Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. At heart, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida could be described as a whodunnit. There can’t be many novels that simultaneously bring to mind Agatha Christie, Salman Rushdie, Raymond Chandler, John le Carré and Stranger Things - but this one does. ![]()
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