A review by soots
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

challenging dark emotional funny informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

You were never meant to like the protagonist, but that's what is brilliant about this book. From the get go, he starts off dead, and you will follow his journey in the afterlife. You will be disappointed by what he did do alive, and what he couldn't do dead, and how the people in your life define you when you're no longer physically around. Set in 1980s Colombo, the author (while you giving you some brief information about the politics in Sri Lanka) demands you to be in the moment, expecting you to understand or at least just accept certain phrases, the politics, and the lifestyles of people and who they are at the time. It is intense, it is infuriating, but the plot moves beautifully. Not as easy to read, but I'm glad I finished it.
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