Magical Realism
by Shehan Karunatilaka
War photographer Maali Almeida awakens dead in a celestial bureaucracy with seven moons to contact the living and expose Sri Lanka's brutal civil war secrets. This searing satire navigates the afterlife and 1990s Colombo with dark humor, chronicling a closeted gay man's posthumous quest for truth amid political violence and supernatural absurdity.
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