Celebrate: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Antwerp celebrates Pride in August and so do we! From three somewhat similarly themed (masking and/vs. living authentically) but quite different proposals we have chosen:

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is unlike anything else on your bookshelf. Maali Almeida, a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay man, wakes up dead in the afterlife with seven days to discover who murdered him and to ensure that his photographs exposing the horrors of Sri Lanka’s civil war reach the living.
Part political thriller, part murder mystery and part dark fantasy, the novel combines biting humour with a powerful examination of violence, memory and truth.