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“Even the afterlife is designed to keep the masses stupid.”

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

August 25, 2023 by Merryn Leave a Comment

Bingo: Asia/Oceania; Passport: Sri Lanka Maali Almeida is dead.  He can’t remember exactly what happened, and it takes a while for the reality of his situation to sink in.  Death is confusing, a bureaucratic maze with rules that everyone seems to expect him to already know, and forms that must be filled in before his seven days are up and he must choose what happens next. Maali desperately wants to know how he died.  He can follow his body through the ghost-ridden streets of Colombo […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: booker prize winner, CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, magic realism, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka

Merryn's CBR15 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: booker prize winner, CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, magic realism, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka ·
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“every death is significant, even when every life appears not to be”

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

May 1, 2023 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

I am exhausted: extremely jet-lagged and just submitted materials for my first major deadline of 2023. So what better to do than to review the last book I read in 2022 (finished at approximately 9:30 PM on New Year’s Eve, yes I know how to party), the Booker Prize-winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida? 2022 was actually my best year when it comes to attacking the Booker longlist; I read three of the nominees, and all of them were really excellent novels, in extremely divergent ways. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Booker prize, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka

tiny_bookbot's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Booker prize, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka ·
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Life: it’s not nothing

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: A Novel by Shehan Karunatilaka

November 21, 2022 by ElCicco 1 Comment

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is the winner of this year’s Booker Prize. Set in 1980s Sri Lanka, the action takes place amidst the violence of Tamils versus Sinhalese versus Indians, not to mention a variety of outside groups and organizations connected to them. The main character is a photographer and gambler, the gay son of Burgher/Tamil mother and Sinhalese father. Maali Almeida says he is not on any side partaking in the violence in Sri Lanka, that his goal is to take the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, ElCicco, Fiction, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14, ElCicco, Fiction, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ·
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