Our dead protagonist, his name, various occupations, and the year he died. The first few paragraphs tell us more about The book begins with the death of our protagonist. Other things, and reflects this theme in the book’s first line. The book explores the concept of religion in depth, among Rife with satire and quick wit, it would be an understatement to call the book anĪccount of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The Seven moons of Maali Almeida is perhaps one of the best books to have come out in the Beneath the literary devices used lies the carnage caused by the civil war The scenarios are often absurd – dead bodies bicker with each other – but executed with humour thatĮntertains the reader. But the novel also recalls the wit and surrealism of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. The obvious literary comparisons are with the magical realism of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. Abstract -The Booker prize winner of 2022, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a book that exposes us to the Sri Lankan War with dark humour and magical realism.
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