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.
How To Win the Booker Prize: Is There a Formula for ‘the Finest in Fiction’?
Examining the data from prize-winning Booker novels over the last 20 years yields some interesting results.