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"Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. 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 serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons,...
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Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, fotógrafo de guerra, ludópata y hombre gay que no ha salido del armario, se ha despertado muerto en lo que parece ser una oficina de la administración pública celestial. Su cuerpo desmembrado se hunde en el lago Beira y Maali no tiene ni la más remota idea de quien es su asesino. En una epoca en la que los escuadrones de la muerte, los hombres bomba y los matones a sueldo son quienes se encargan de ajustar cuentas,...
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