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The narrator of “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” is a ghost
Editor’s note: On October 17th “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” won the Booker prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award. The chairman of the selection committee praised it as a “metaphysical thriller…that dissolves the boundaries not just of different genres, but of life and death, body and spirit, east and west”.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Ghosts of history”
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