Shehan Karunatilaka: Cricket writer, satirist, and now Booker Prize-winner
(Picture: Booker Prize Foundation/PA)The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, a supernatural satire by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka, has won the Booker Prize for Fiction.
The novel tells the story of a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to ask his friends to find his photos and expose the brutality of the Sri Lankan civil war. With no idea who killed him, Maali has seven moons to contact the people he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos of civil-war atrocities that will rock Sri Lanka.
