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

challenging dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Maali is dead.  He has seven moons (days) to find the two people he loves most and discover how and why he died. And that begins a turbulent trip through dreams and reality, war and searching for peace. Set up in seven sections, each moon's events play out as a stream of consciousness allegory at first, but there is some resolution at the end. Lots of the references were out of my ken (Sri Lankan internal conflicts, Buddhist faith).  And there was so much violence that I had to read in small chunks.
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