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source: bookwyrm
date: 2024-12-30 18:55:06.00 +00
title: "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka"
post_uri: https://bookwyrm.social/user/gravely/comment/6131227
post_id: 6131227
bookwyrm_updated: 2024-12-30T18:55:06.391940+00:00
tags:
  - bookwyrm
book_title: "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida"
book_author: "Shehan Karunatilaka"
book_url: https://bookwyrm.social/book/651208
reading_status: read
---
![Cover of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, published 2022-10-31 by W. W. Norton & Company, a 400-page paperback](./cover-6131227.jpeg)

A friend posted that they'd just read a book that they think might be the best book they'd ever read, and it was this one. 4, 3, 2, 1 was listed for a Booker and this one won the prize? OK, I'll try it.

I really wanted to like it more than I did, and the second act really flows well, but I had a hard time finishing it, today, finally. It's right up my alley in lots of ways. v0v