a tighter expression of his distinctive prose and an even more glaring mirror of Sri Lanka. Karunatilaka’s tone is almost in the vein of his literary hero, Kurt Vonnegut, combining the funny and the dreadful in a bleak, black way. Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka returns with a crackling whodunit a decade after his debut. The wild horses of Shehan Karunatilaka’s imagination run fast, wild and true. It stays with you long after you have finished reading it.
The South Asian epic we have been waiting for for a decade.
Fizzes with energy, imagery and ideas against a broad, surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars. Life after death in Sri Lanka: an afterlife noir, with nods to Dante and Buddha and yet unpretentious.
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