The Booker Prize 2022 Winner
It is our great pleasure to confirm The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka as the winner of the Booker Prize 2022.
At once mordantly funny and shot through with piercing truths, Karunatilaka's exuberant satire follows the eventful afterlife of the titular protagonist as he navigates civil war-torn Sri Lanka in search of some explosive photographs - and the identity of his killer.
“What the judges particularly admired and enjoyed in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida was the ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques. This is a metaphysical thriller, an afterlife noir that dissolves the boundaries not just of different genres, but of life and death, body and spirit, east and west.”
Neil MacGregor, Chair of Judges
The Booker Prize Shortlist 2022
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A young boy strikes up an unlikely friendship with an enigmatic, wandering healer in Garner’s gorgeously crafted novel that blends myth and folklore with a moving tale about memory and things that give meaning to life.
Mordantly funny and utterly unique, Karunatilaka’s maverick novel dissects the painful truths of a brutal and dark chapter in Sri Lanka’s recent history through the titular protagonist’s afterlife quest to find out who murdered him.
Set in a small Irish town and following a coal and timber merchant confronted by the past, this magnetic tale of determination and quiet heroism from the author of Foster is as hopeful as it is haunting.
A chance encounter reunites newly widowed Lucy Barton with her first husband in this stunningly intricate portrait of love, loss and a decades-long partnership from Elizabeth Strout’s masterly pen.
The Longlist 2022
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