The following summary relies upon a linear, streamlined mode of explanation. The author takes creative and inventive liberties with point of view, structure, form, and conventional notions of the novelistic plot line throughout. However, because the novel is a work of magical realism, the narrative setting is also defined by the main character Maali’s journeys in the Afterlife, a realm referred to as the In Between throughout the novel. The novel is set in 1980s Colombo, Sri Lanka. Shehan Karunatilaka’s novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is written from the protagonist Maali Almeida’s second person point of view. Born in Colombo, he studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is his second novel. Shehan Karunatilaka is the multi-award winning author of Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew.
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