![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is also a deeply humane novel about how to live in intolerable circumstances, about whether change is possible, and how to set about coping if it’s not.’ It’s not just that Sri Lanka’s present is almost as complex – if thankfully not as violent – as its past. ‘There’s relevance in every one of Seven Moons’ many layers. ‘Maali himself is the heart and (literally) soul of the book, and he’s wonderful company, cheerfully unapologetic about what others might see as his failings, and uncowed – even by his own sudden death – in his commitment to his violently chaotic country and to Jaki and DD, the loves of his complicated life. ‘You have one response for those who believe Colombo to be overcrowded: wait till you see it with ghosts.’ This is Sri Lankan history as whodunnit, thriller, and existential fable teeming with the bolshiest of spirits. ‘The exhilarating energy with which we’re plunged into a rich and darkly comic world. ‘The voice of the novel – a first-person narrative rendered, with an astonishingly light touch, in the second person – is unforgettable: beguiling, unsentimental, by turns tender and angry and always unsparingly droll. ![]()
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