A brutal civil war is tearing Sri Lanka apart. Maali Almeida, the narrator of Shehan Karunatilaka’s remarkable, Booker Prize winning novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, is a “photographer, gambler, slut”, a closet gay, and fixer. Photos that could stop wars.” His fervent hope is that these images — stored in a shoe box beneath a bed in his …
