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As his 12 months of publicity frenzy attracts to a detailed after successful the world’s most prestigious award for an English-language e-book – the Booker – in 2022, Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka involves FRANCE 24 to speak in regards to the novel that made him well-known. “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” is an element homicide thriller, half ghost story, half political satire and half homosexual love story. On his web site he describes himself as a “Booker winner. Author of punchlines, manifestos and calls to motion. Failed cricketer, failed rock star, failed vegan. Observer of individuals, machines and markets”. He has printed two novels, together with “Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew,” which gained the 2012 Commonwealth Ebook Prize. He’s in Paris whereas his second e-book, “The Seven Moons,” is being translated into French and launched in one other 25 international locations. He is talking to Eve Jackson.
