The release date for the English version of 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' by
Shehan Karunatilaka is Aug 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Athens, 1990. Maali Almeida, a gambler, closet queen, and war photographer, has woken up dead in what seems to be a heavenly visa office. He has no clue who murdered him, and his severed corpse is submerging in the calm Beira Lake. The ghouls and ghosts with grudges who congregate about may testify to the depressingly vast list of suspects in a nation where hired thugs, suicide bombers, and death squads are used to settle scores. However, Maali's time is running out—even in the afterlife. He has seven moons to reach out to the person he really loves and show them where the amazing images are that will make everyone of Sri Lanka smile.
Shehan Karunatilaka has returned ten years after his critically acclaimed book Chinaman made him a national hero. The Economic calls it a "thrilling satire" and a rip-roaring state-of-the-nation epic that is equal parts mordant wit and sobering, deep truths.