![]() Born in Sri Lanka, he studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. ![]() The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is his second novel. Shehan Karunatilaka is the author of the award-winning Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, which was selected for the UK’s 2022 Big Jubilee Read selection. Unity Books will be there on the night with books for purchase. ![]() Shehan Karunatilaka speaks with Rijula Das about his scorching political satire. ‘ Comic, macabre, angry and thumpingly alive.’ ― The Economist dissolves the boundaries not just of different genres, but of life and death, body and spirit, east and west.’ ― Neil MacGregor, Chair of The Booker Prize 2022 judges ‘ A rollicking magic-realist take…is messy and chaotic in all the best ways.’ ― The TLS Set in Colombo in 1990, it’s the story of Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, who has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. ![]() The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing, mordantly funny epic set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war. This is a very special pop-up event with one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors who has dazzled the global literary world. ![]() We are thrilled to have Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the Booker Prize 2022 for the magnificent The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida come to town. ![]()
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