the seven moons of maali almeida book review

The Seven Moons of Maali Almedia is a 2022 Booker Prize winner book written by Shehan Karunatilaka. When Maali is reported missing, the entire plot comes together to project a story of silent war storming through Sri Lanka. The timeline follows this parallel between Maali in the death world and his friends and foes in the living world navigating Colombo’s violent streets where men lie and fondle other men.

But he is dead and in the in-between of death and life he has to somehow “whisper” to DD (his gay lover), Joki (his female friend) - only people can he trust to get those photographs out in the public. He has clicked pictures which include him with other men, animals and pictures of conflict-ridden Sri Lanka - the pictures if revealed to the public could turn the future of Sri Lanka upside down. Maali is a photojournalist, reckless gambler, and closet gay. Navigating his own death, he has to find out how he died and in this process he finds out more than he had ever known when he’s alive and he has got seven moons to embark on a journey to contact his lover, his friend and people who can wreck and save Sri Lanka. Straight from scandalous and conflict ridden streets of 1990 Colombo, Maali Almeida has no idea what has killed him.

Maali Almeida wakes up dead in what seems to be an office for dead people. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

The seven moons of maali almeida book review