Chinaman the legend of7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() He said, “Things are less crazy than they were a couple of weeks ago, I’ve managed to get some sleep. I chatted to Karunatilaka in his home in Colombo in the aftermath of the Booker win. For this Sri Lankan Tamil, it was both a deeply resonant and educative read. As he wanders through the afterlife, he encounters many other victims of the Sri Lankan Civil War and surrounding political chaos, and the book becomes a caustic and brutal lament for the generations who were destroyed by the 26-year conflict. ![]() He’s trying to figure out who killed him, which isn’t easy given the dizzying political issues in play in 1989. The book dives straight into the chaos of 1980s Sri Lanka, as photojournalist, Maali Almeida, discovers that he’s just been murdered. Shehan Karunatilaka became only the second Sri Lankan writer to win the Booker Prize with his magnificent novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The 2022 Booker Prize winner talks Sri Lanka, the trauma of war, cricket, New Zealand, and taking 10 years to write The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. ![]()
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