Sri Lankan Author Shehan Karunatilaka Wins 2022 Booker Prize
The ‘metaphysical thriller’ is set in 1990 during his country’s civil war
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The ‘metaphysical thriller’ is set in 1990 during his country’s civil war
The prestigious award was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which the judges hailed as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."
The novel opens with a photographer, the eponymous Maali Almeida, who has woken up dead in a celestial visa office, while his body sinks in the Beira Lake in Colombo. Maali has seven moons to find the man and woman he loves and lead them to "a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka".
The insider has dubbed the upcoming series - which is reported to suggest that Prince Philip was 'pursuing an affair' with Penny Knatchbull - as 'republican fiction'.
Karunatilaka’s novel is a satire based in war-torn Sri Lanka.