Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winning novel is a black comedy about the afterlife, a murder mystery, and a political satire set against the violent backdrop of the late-1980s Sri Lankan …
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Sri Lankan Author Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’
This is Karunatilaka's second novel. It is a work of satire, set in a Sri Lanka beset by civil war.
Book Review: The Brief, Gorgeous and Honest World of Ocean Vuong
'On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous' shows readers that even in the loss, there’s redemption, and a beauty of sorts only if one knows where to find it.