Shehan Karunatilaka’s 2022 Booker Prize-winning novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is set in Sri Lanka during the 25-year civil war.
With renewed political and economic crisis in his country, Karunatilaka discusses with Brannavan Gnanalingam how the corruption and race-baiting of the past is still affecting current tumultuous times.
Supported by Asia New Zealand Foundation / Te Whītau Tūhono.
