Novel•Romance•Magical Realism•LGBTQ+•Sri Lankan Literature
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka(2022)
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Pages: 416
Language: English
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A photographer wakes up dead and has seven moons to solve his own murder while navigating love and identity in war-torn Sri Lanka.
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Maali Almeida woke up dead, which was inconvenient for several reasons.
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
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Chapter 1 - After Death
Maali Almeida woke up dead, which was inconvenient for several reasons.
He was a photographer, a gambler, and secretly gay in 1990s Sri Lanka.
"You have seven moons to sort out your affairs," the afterlife bureaucrat told him.
Maali's biggest regret wasn't his death - it was leaving behind DD, the man he loved.
"I never told him how I felt," Maali realized with growing panic.
From the afterlife, he watched DD grieve, not knowing the truth about their relationship.
"I have to find a way to tell him," Maali decided.
But first, he had to solve his own murder and protect the photographs that could change everything.
Love, it turns out, doesn't end with death.
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