Yeah I mean it’s everywhere. Won the Booker Prize last year, which honestly it deserves.
It’s very close to my heart, cause 1) it’s gay! 2) it’s set in Colombo, where I used to live.
It’s ‘literary fiction’ but imo it’s a better fantasy than most fantasy genre books Deffo add it to your list
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I will have to judge that for myself
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It’s not as weird as Marlon Jones is it? And it’s not a traditional hero’s journey with a boring protag?
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Well it’s not a hero’s journey (or is everything a hero’s journey?) It’s a whodunnit murder mystery.
Colombo, 1990: Maali Almeida is dead, and he’s as confused about how and why as you are. A Sri Lankan whodunnit and a race against time, Seven Moons is full of ghosts, gags and a deep humanity.
Maali is a very complex character, and he’s got a dry-wit. It’s told in second-person from his perspective. There are a couple of ways to read it. Are you Maali? Or are you stuck with Maali in purgatory to accompany him on his journey?
Not the Marlon James drag I guess it’s a little disorienting like BLRW, but it’s not a straight comparison. It reads more like Salman Rushdie (South-Asian magic realism) and Kurt Vonnegut.
If you’re open and willing to try something experimental then go for it. It’s complex — or “advanced reading”, whatever that means. Don’t expect to find that uwu lovable character to make fancams of.
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Goes to the online bookshop
I read ghosts, confusion, gags, race against time… all the good stuff
Yes, yes I am Maali.
Okay, sounds good. I like magic realism to an extent.
Is more open than sliding doors during the one week of summer we get
Exactly what I want! None of this uWu stuff.