Seven Moons took the 2022 Booker as I was drafting this review I had it pegged as a stand-out contender on a strong shortlist and its win isn’t exactly unexpected. And there’s your novel: a seven-part high-speed supernatural sprint through Columbo’s streets complete with demons and death-squads, casinos and art galleries, spirit guides and arms dealers. And not only is this a ghostly murder investigation, but Maali also needs to somehow contact his (fake) girlfriend and his (actual) boyfriend to work out how to get his secret photo archive printed and shown, so that he can show the world the truth about the government’s complicity in the still-raging Lankan civil war. He’s in a busy, bureaucratic afterlife with no memory of who’s killed him, or why – but he’s got seven moons (nights) to figure it out. It’s 1990 in Sri Lanka, and Maali Almeida, a documentary photographer and some-time fixer for the AP, wakes up dead.
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