The Booker Prizes | Prasanna Puwanarajah reads an extract from 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' | The Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Watch Prasanna Puwanarajah read a second extract from 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' by Shehan Karunatilaka, shortlisted for the #BookerPrize2022

The story so far: Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, a war photographer, has been killed. In the afterlife, he has ‘seven moons’ to find out who murdered him, while, in the real world, local detectives must first find the rest of his body.

Directed by Kevin Thomas for Mermade Films

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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