Writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,' a satirical 'afterlife noir' set during Sri Lanka's brutal civil war.
"It's a book that takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey through life and death, right to what the author describes as the dark heart of the world," MacGregor said."And there the reader finds to their surprise, joy, tenderness, love and loyalty."
Karunatilaka paid tribute to his fellow authors on the 13-book longlist and six-book shortlist for the prize.The five-member jury read 170 novels before choosing a winner. MacGregor said all the books explored the actions of individuals in a world"where fixed points are moving, disintegrating.
"All these books show why it has to be taught, addressed and discussed — because otherwise we can't understand the framework within which people have to make the big choices, the essential choices, of their lives," he said.
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