Jörg’s Reviews > The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida > Status Update
Jörg
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The evil that men do. The worst are on top. The minister gets his torturers trained by the CIA. Policemen have to cover up crimes instead of resolving them. Arms dealers cover up as journalists and NGO employees. The opposing Tamil forces kill moderate Tamils. The communist JVP has got eradicated between the fronts and India's involvement makes things worse by selfish motives and applying the same means as others.
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Jörg
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Nakath is the Sri Lankan version of aligning actions with the stars. 1948, the year Sri Lanka was founded, must have been a bad year considering the mess it is in 1990 and has been for a long time. Other countries founded in 1948: North Korea, Myanmar, Israel and South Korea.
Didn't know how derogatory the Sri Lankan flag is to its minorities (tamils, muslims with the pseudo-inclusion of the stripes on the left.
— Mar 20, 2026 01:34AM
Didn't know how derogatory the Sri Lankan flag is to its minorities (tamils, muslims with the pseudo-inclusion of the stripes on the left.
Jörg
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First moon gone. Maali is getting familiar with the administrative hassle of the in-between of life and death and starts investigating his murder.
I read this as it won the Booker but it's a great way to get a glimpse of Sri Lanka's troubled history in the 80's and 90's. The premise of Maali revisiting places of his life as a ghost works surprisingly well thanks to the author's conception of the in-between.
— Mar 19, 2026 02:06AM
I read this as it won the Booker but it's a great way to get a glimpse of Sri Lanka's troubled history in the 80's and 90's. The premise of Maali revisiting places of his life as a ghost works surprisingly well thanks to the author's conception of the in-between.
