The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida : WINNER OF THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE Roy A. Adkins and the darkest parts of

and the darkest parts of Hawkeye's mind

He commanded respect and was dealt as an equal with such world figures as President Roosevelt

This brilliant and controversial analysis deserves to rank alongside the works of Tocqueville

former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune

radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an unstoppable Asian renaissance

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida : WINNER OF THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE Roy A. Adkins and the darkest parts ofA searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil warColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time when scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts who