Booker Prize winner lets ghosts of Sri Lanka's past spe...
Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to give voice to Sri Lanka’s dead
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Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to give voice to Sri Lanka’s dead
LONDON (AP) -- Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" to give voice to Sri Lanka's dead. He hoped the
LONDON — Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to give voice to Sri Lanka’s dead. He hoped the ghosts of the country’s bloody past could speak to its troubled present. When the book became a finalist for the 50,000-pound ($58,000) fiction award this
“The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” which won the 2022 Booker Prize, is an account of wartime Sri Lanka by the ghost of a photojournalist.
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