Karunatikala told the Booker Prize that the novel began germinating in 2009, after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. John Harrison and novelist, poet and professor Alain Mabanckou. The 2022 jury is comprised of cultural historian, writer and broadcaster Neil MacGregor, academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari, historian Helen Castor, novelist and critic M. The Booker Prize called The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida "searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war." Alemeida has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will change Sri Lanka forever. He has no idea who killed him, but the list of suspects is surprisingly long. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a satirical novel about a photographer named Maali Almeida who was killed, and finds himself in an afterlife that feels like a visa office.
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