The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Summary

Maali Almeida, a war photographer killed in Colombo at the height of Sri Lanka's civil conflict, wakes in a chaotic afterlife and is given seven moons to discover who murdered him and why. Karunatilaka mixes ghost story, political thriller, and gallows comedy, peopling the bardo with bureaucrats, demons, and disappeared dissidents. It is a wild, formally daring reckoning with the violence of an island's recent past.