![]() ![]() ![]() Because of this factor, Seven Moons appeal emerges with repeated readings. In a way I was reminded of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, a novel with a non linear structure which criticised extreme actions of political groups. The whole book is structured like a puzzle, so it may be confusing at first but then pieces fall together and the novel becomes a cohesive whole. ![]() Yet Seven Moons… is a creative one as well. There is a lot of ugliness in this novel. With a plot like this Shehan Karunatilaka, shows the reader all the problems with Sri Lanka: Police corruption, religious intolerance, gang violence, the savagery of hired killers and all the state led betrayal. a bloody and terrifying moment in history. The setting: Sri Lanka during the civil war. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida has an interesting premise: A photographer dies and has seven moons to discover how he died and to guide his friends on Earth to uncover a stack of photos which will expose the brutalities of his country. ![]()
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