![]() ![]() “Chats with the Dead” (renamed and republished with some changes as “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” in Europe and America) is located in purgatory. For total anarchy, there could not have been any better Paradise. The Sinhala state versus Tamil minority versus the anarchic Janata Vimukthi Perumana or JVP, and as if that was not enough, Tamils versus Muslims, Buddhists versus Muslims and various freelance and LTTE bombers versus each other and the State. An anarchic noir, the novel trawls the underbelly of a country at war with itself. It is in that battered Sri Lanka that Shehan Karunatilaka places his third novel which has now won the Booker Prize. For that Sri Lanka with its Sinhala Buddhist majority has had a terrible unimaginable price to pay in a 25-year-war that threatened the destruction of the State itself. ![]() ![]() But in Sri Lanka and neighboring Myanmar where Buddhists are a majority they have launched large-scale massacres of minorities. ![]()
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