One never knows what to expect from Everett, whose prolific fictional output over the last four decades includes Westerns ( God’s Country, 1994), crime novels ( Assumption, 2011), variations on Greek mythology ( Frenzy, 1997), and inquiries into African American identity ( I Am Not Sidney Poitier, 2009). “A deadpan spoof of international thrillers, complete with a megalomaniacal supervillain, a killer robot, a damsel in distress, and math problems. John Sill is a Bond-style villain who needs Wala Kitu’s help breaking into Fort Knox to steal a box of nothing. His first name means nothing in Tagalog and his last name means nothing in Swahili.
Wala Kitu is a brilliant mathematics professor who is an expert on nothing. This is a novel that combines cosmic vision with down-to-earth humour and hard-won heart.” (The Guardian)Įverett’s latest, following Booker-nominated The Trees (2022) is a book about… nothing. But though Maali is hard-bitten, he’s never cynical, especially as his new perspective on earthly events reveals his real priorities you could even say death is the making of him. “There’s a tremendous comic energy to Karunatilaka’s bitter satire, and an effortless vigour to his characterisation, the riotous cast encompassing demons, ghouls, torturers, politicians and lovers.
He is gay, atheist and dead-and has seven nights to solve his own murder. This irreverent satire of Sri Lankan civil war circa 1990 features Maali Almeida, a war photographer with outsized appetites for gambling and sex who possesses a set of photos that could turn his country upside down.
The winner of this year’s Booker Prize (the UK’s most prestigious award for an English-language novel published in the United Kingdom or Ireland) is finally arriving in the U.S. THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA by Shehan Karunatilaka Any room on your holds list? Here are some of the most tempting novels coming out this month.
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