![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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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