Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' to give voice to Sri Lanka's dead.
When the book became a finalist for the 50,000-pound fiction award this summer, protests over a deepening economic crisis gripped Sri Lanka. An uneasy calm had returned by Oct. 17, when Karunatilaka’s novel“Surreal” was the word Karunatilaka used to describe edging out finalists who included Americans Percival Everett and Elizabeth Strout with his novel about a war photographer who wakes up dead.
“And so I , what if we could allow these silenced voices to speak? What if we could have a ghost story where the dead were allowed to speak?” Sri Lankans protested for months over an unprecedented economic crisis that has led to severe shortages of essential imports such as medicines, fuel and cooking gas. Thousands stormed the president’s residence in July, forcing then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee and later resign. Footage of protesters swimming in the president’s pool and sleeping in his bed were beamed around the world.“When you laugh at something, it has less power,” he said.
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