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He does not learn until much later that Dada has in fact written him consistent letters following his departure. Over the course of the following years, Maali holds a grudge against his absent father. When Maali is still a young boy, his father leaves his mother. Maali’s childhood is therefore defined by these conflicts. His parents have a tumultuous marriage and are constantly fighting. Maali Almeida grows up with his father and mother, Dada and Amma, in a house in Bambalapitiya, a neighborhood of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The following summary relies upon a linear, streamlined mode of explanation. The author takes creative and inventive liberties with point of view, structure, form, and conventional notions of the novelistic plot line throughout. However, because the novel is a work of magical realism, the narrative setting is also defined by the main character Maali’s journeys in the Afterlife, a realm referred to as the In Between throughout the novel. The novel is set in 1980s Colombo, Sri Lanka. Shehan Karunatilaka’s novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is written from the protagonist Maali Almeida’s second person point of view. Born in Colombo, he studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is his second novel. Shehan Karunatilaka is the multi-award winning author of Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew.
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