Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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  Hello, this is the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Harriet Gilbert.

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  Welcome to World Book Club, where this month we've been reading an audacious novel about Sri Lanka's long civil war.

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  Narrated by a man who's just been murdered.

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  It has ghosts, evil spirits, unscrupulous politicians, even a tragic love affair.

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  It's called the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

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  It won last year's Booker Prize for fiction.

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  And here to answer questions about it from BBC listeners around the world is its Sri Lankan author, Ceyhan Karuna Tilaka.

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  Sheyhan, welcome to World Book Club.

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  Well, thank you, Harriet.

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  Pleasure to be here.

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  Well, I gather you've just come hot foot from having a discussion with the Queen.

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  With Queen Camilla, I mean, that's extraordinarily glamorous.

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  What were you talking with her about?

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  Yeah, it's my second chat with her.

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  I chatted to her at the Booker event last year, and I think last time we chatted about her visit to Sri Lanka, I think 10 years ago with the king, and didn't have time to talk politics.

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  So it was a pleasant chat.

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  But you were there because she will be presenting this year's Booker Prize, presumably, or something like that.

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