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050 _aPR9440.9.K378
_bS48 2022
100 _aKarunatilaka, Shehan
_eauthor
_924005
245 1 4 _aThe seven moons of Maali Almeida
_c/ Shehan Karunatilaka.
260 _aLondon :
_bSort of Books,
_c2023.
300 _a408 pages :
_bmap (black and white) ;
_c20 cm.
520 _aColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida — war photographer, gambler, and closet queen — 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. In a country 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 around can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka. Ten years after his prize-winning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a “thrilling satire” (Economist) and rip-roaring state-of-the-nation epic that offers equal parts mordant wit and disturbing, profound truths.
586 _aBook Prize winner 2022.
650 0 _aGhosts
_zSri Lanka
_vFiction
_924006
650 0 _aMurders
_zSri Lanka
_zColombo
_vFiction
_924007
650 0 _aPhotographers
_zSri Lanka
_vFiction
_924009
651 0 _aColombo (Sri Lanka)
_vFiction
_924008
655 0 _aParanormal fiction
_922925
655 0 _aGhost stories
_923955
655 0 _aHistorical fiction
_922722
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