A photographer in the afterlife sets out to expose the carnage of Sri Lanka's civil wars in a Booker-nominated novel filled with humour and pathos Shehan Karunatilaka made a splash a decade ago with his debut novel Chinaman. Winner of the 2012 Commonwealth book prize and hailed as one of the great Sri Lankan novels, it recounts the alcohol-soaked life of a retired sports journalist who sets out on a zany quest to track down a great cricketer of the 1980s who has mysteriously gone missing. His Bo...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka review - life after death in Sri Lanka
The Guardian - 9 Aug 2022 11:00
A photographer in the afterlife sets out to expose the carnage of Sri Lanka's civil wars in a Booker-nominated novel filled with humour and pathos Shehan Karunatilaka made a splash a decade ago with his debut novel Chinaman. Winner of the 2012 Commonwealth book prize and hailed as one of the great Sri Lankan novels, it recounts the alcohol-soaked life of a retired sports journalist who sets out on a zany quest to track down a great cricketer of the 1980s who has mysteriously gone missing. His Bo...
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