SINGAPORE – What if the dead could speak? This question fermented in the mind of Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka for years before he bodied forth a darkly funny novel set in 1989 and 1990 during the Sri Lankan civil war.
The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida is a political satire and whodunnit featuring a dead protagonist. War photographer Maali wakes up in the afterlife – which happens to be a disorganised bureaucracy – and has a week to solve his own murder.
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