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Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel won the Booker Prize in 2022. It is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems to be a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the Beira Lake and ...
17 de out. de 2022 · But Shehan Karunatilaka mixes different genres so deftly that you end up with a rich, satisfying novel, rather than an overstuffed one. The opening of the book sets the slightly absurd tone.
17 de out. de 2022 · Shehan Karunatilaka is one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors. In addition to his novels he has written rock songs, screenplays and travel stories. He emerged on to the global literary stage in 2011, when he won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSL and Gratiaen Prize for his debut novel, Chinaman.
Creatures with power acting in their own interest: that is what should make us shudder.”. ― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. 33 likes. Like. “Because, on reflection, once you have seen your own face and recognized the color of your eyes, tasted the air and smelled the soil, drunk from the purest fountains and the ...
Shehan Karunatilaka é o autor premiado de Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, vencedor dos prémios Commonweath Prize, Gratiaen Prize e DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. As Sete Luas de Maali Almeida é o seu segundo romance, que conquistou o meio literário.
Shehan Karunatilaka (nacido en 1975) es un escritor de Sri Lanka. Su novela debut de 2010 Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew ganó el Premio de la Commonwealth, el Premio DSC, el Premio Gratiaen, y Wisden lo nombró el segundo mejor libro de cricket de todos los tiempos. Su segunda novela Las siete lunas de Maali Almeida (The Seven Moons of ...
8 de out. de 2022 · B orn in 1975, Shehan Karunatilaka is the Sri Lankan author of two novels. Chinaman (2010) won the Commonwealth book prize and was declared the second-best cricket book of all time by Wisden.
