The winning work of this year’s edition of the Booker Prize, the most important prize for fiction in the English language, will be published in Portugal in the first half of 2023 by the Clube do Autor, it was announced this Thursday.
The seven moons by Maali Almeida is the second novel by Shehan Karunatilaka, the first Sri Lankan author to receive the Booker Prize. It tells of a war photojournalist who, after his death, finds himself in a sort of celestial visa issuance office where he is given “seven moons” to solve the mystery of his sudden death and develop the roll of photographs he promises to “shake up.” to Sri Lanka devastated by the horrors of civil war.
Shehan Karunatilaka from Sri Lanka wins the 2022 Booker Prize with “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”
“Ambitious” and “hilarious”, the book transports the reader to the “black heart of the world” and also on a journey to “discover tenderness and beauty, love and loyalty, and the search for an ideal that justifies all life.” human”. said the president of this year’s jury, art historian and writer Neil MacGregor, at the time of the award announcement.
In a statement, the Clube do Autor highlights the depth of Karunatilaka’s story, “human and original, set in the chaos of the civil war in the author’s country of origin and narrated (…) from a point of view very particular view.”
The winner of the 2022 Booker Prize was announced on October 17, in the final stretch of a ceremony at the Roundhouse, a concert venue in London, England. Last year, the prize went to the South African Damon Galgut, for the novel The promisepublished in Portugal in January, by the Relógio d’Água publishing house.
Damon Galgut. A family curse and a broken promise in apartheid South Africa
Source: Observadora
