![]() ![]() The late 1980s was so many lifetimes ago in Sri Lankan politics the novel felt like historical fiction, Karunatilaka said, while its talking animals and demons helped insulate him too. ![]() His book is set during the civil war in the author's homeland, with the plot a way to talk about the long-running conflict without inviting controversy. In Seven Moons, the main character Maali Almeida, a photographer, gambler and 'closet queen', wakes up as a ghost with seven days to find out who killed him. "I am looking forward to the circus dying down and going back to my boring life of sitting in a room and writing." "I am enjoying it but it's not the natural setting - the natural setting is sitting by yourself in a room for years on end," he said. It's meant he's only done two or three days of writing in six months. ![]() It's all part of a mad ride that has seen magical-realist The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida find a massive global audience (his first novel Chinaman was aimed at cricket tragics). ![]() Happily for Karunatilaka, he's staying in the trendy suburb of Fitzroy ahead of his appearance at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Friday night. ![]()
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