History is people with ships and weapons wiping out those who forgot to invent them. “Our ancestors have literally been demonised…. it is like the universe, like every missing God. “Is God unable to stop evil? or unwilling?” Memories come to you in gasps and chokes and loose motions.” Strange, as you no longer have a body, though maybe the hypnotists are right maybe pain and pleasure reside only in the mind. In sneezes, in aches, in scratches and in itches. Creatures with power acting in their own interest: that is what should make us shudder.” And that’s what keeps you from rising against it” “They tell you that injustice is part of some grand plan. “The heave of humanity is never picturesque” Deciding to seek him from people in the celestial office who have gained powers to speak to the living and make little interferences in the living world, he hopes that the pictures he took and have hidden would help change the trajectory of the war in Sri Lanka. He is told that he has seven moons to get ready to be transported to his final journey, but he still has a lot to do. In the celestial office, he meets other prominent figures who died fighting the good fight of freedom and representation. As a war photographer in Sri Lanka during the civil war, he has seen a lot and has taken a lot of pictures that definitely put in the radar of very powerful people in the regime, so him dying is not the surprise (at least to him). We see that in this office that he finds himself, he is currently grappling with the fact that he is dead and he has no idea who killed him.
We follow Maali Almeida (a war photographer, gambler, closet gay, lover, son and friend) who has just realised that he is dead and is currently at an office that manages the affairs of the dead (basically they ensure that the dead walk into the light). Publication date: August 4th, 2022 Review
I have kept my review short and I have opted for quotes from the book as they do a better job encapsulating the excellence of this story. This book was absolutely electric, and I cannot talk about it enough. This book won the Booker Prize for 2022 and I had to jump on it quickly.
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