Prasanna Puwanarajah reads from 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' | The Booker Prize 

Watch Prasanna Puwanarajah read an extract from 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' by Shehan Karunatilaka, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022.
The story so far: Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, 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 - and he has just ‘seven moons’ to find out…
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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