A novel awarded the Booker.

Colombo in Sri Lanka, 1990. The time of brutal civil war.
Maali Almeida – a war photographer, gambler, and salesman – is killed. His body lies at the bottom of Lake Beira, and his soul ascends to an absurd office, a kind of visa bureau in the afterlife. There, Maali has seven days to solve the mystery of his death and close unfinished earthly matters.
However, for Maali, death could come from any direction. As a photographer whose images have the power to topple governments and prevent wars, he has enemies everywhere – from government henchmen to the Tamil Tigers to revolutionaries. The search leads through his tangled relationships and complicated connection with his mother, as well as the landscape of a country engulfed in bloody civil war.
Few novels evoke Agatha Christie, Salman Rushdie, John le Carré, and Stranger Things – but this one does.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a fairy tale for adults, as it is a fairy tale about civil war. The ancient Greeks believed that when such a thing occurs, everyone must take a side. Maali tries rather to live his life as a gambler and an accidental lover, and above all: a photographer. When the desire for engagement arises, he thinks it is not political at all. Only in a place that in our civilization we would call purgatory or Sheol – where one talks to wise leopards and inept bureaucrats – can he understand how wrong he was. It reads wonderfully, and the ending is cathartic.
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