![]() ![]() The Booker win, Britain’s highest literary honour, is a story by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka, brimming with humour and pathos, and the second win from the South Asian Subcontinent to have made the cut, the first one being Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree. ![]() ![]() Although an unconventional read, I was surprised at the ambitions and imaginative force depicted by Shehan Karunatilaka – the float between life and death, vengeance and forgiveness, the power of journalism, political corruption in one of the most literate countries in the world, life and death, and reality and metaphysics.Ī photographer begins to bare the massacre of Sri Lanka’s civil wars in Colombo, 1990 – that is what The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is all about. ![]()
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