The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka’s stirring novel, though reading it is a bit challenging, burrows the sordid political and cultural landscape of the country in the 1980s and harrows our minds with all the distressing, ghoulish experiences.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida exposes the carbuncular ulcers of the Sri Lankan body ushered in by the battle erupted in 1983, the JVP...