The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardback)

Fizzes with energy, imagery and ideas against a broad, surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars. - The Booker judges

Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls or Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita ... Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's history - Guardian

Brilliant ... rollicking ... a pleasure to read. Karunatilaka writes with tinder-dry wit and an unfaltering ear for prose cadences. - Kate McLoughlin, Times Literary Supplement

Outstanding ... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade - New European

An exuberant whodunnit ...There can't be many novels that simultaneously bring to mind Agatha Christie, Salman Rushdie and John le Carré - but this one does - The Times

This magic realist (and often funny) novel fizzes with energy and ideas... Imagine a mash-up of Stranger Things and Salman Rushdie - Robbie Millen, The Times

Shehan Karunatilaka's epic novel is a powerful evocation of Sri Lanka's dark and brutal past - Lucy Popescu, Financial Times

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is dazzling. Shehan Karunatilaka's use of Sri Lankan folk mythology is truly original ... human and non-human monsters equally terrify. And yet Karunatilaka's exuberant language and humour keeps this book buoyant and a joy to read - Shyam Selvadurai, author of Funny Boy

A brave and brilliantly inventive novel, full of energy, about a mad bad world in a dark time - Romesh Gunesekera, author of Reef and Monkfish Moon

Shehan Karunatilaka's narrative is breathtakingly kaleidoscopic - Financial Times

Audacious, original and perfectly formed - Suzanne Harrington, Writers Mosaic

A roaring talent ...Throw yourself into the arms of this book, relish its wild phantasmagorical ride. It's the most worthy Booker winner for many years - Neil Mackay, Herald