TY - BOOK AU - Karunatilaka,Shehan TI - The seven moons of Maali Almeida SN - 9781914502064 U1 - 823.92 23/eng/20220902 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Sort of Books KW - Murder victims KW - Fiction KW - Spirits KW - Photographers KW - Death KW - Sri Lanka KW - Colombo (Sri Lanka) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Civil War, 1983-2009 KW - Colombo KW - fast KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Ghost stories N2 - Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts who cluster around him can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden chache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka ER -