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The seven moons of Maali Almeida / Shehan Karunatilaka.

By: Karunatilaka, Shehan [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Sort of Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 386 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1908745908; 9781908745903; 9781914502064; 191450206XOther title: 7 moons of Maali AlmeidaSubject(s): Photographers -- Sri Lanka -- Fiction | Colombo (Sri Lanka) -- FictionDDC classification: JS823KAR Awards: Winner of the Booker Prize, 2022.Summary: "Colombo, 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 Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time when scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts who cluster around him can attest. But 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. "--Publisher.
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"Colombo, 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 Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time when scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts who cluster around him can attest. But 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. "--Publisher.

Winner of the Booker Prize, 2022.

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