![]() Karunatilaka's novel breaks with conventional modes of storytelling to reveal humanness in a strange, sprawling, tragic situation. Amid the dryness, satire and weary lamentations on the state of Sri Lanka there is genuine heart to this novel.-Charlie Connelly "New European Review" ![]() The most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade. The result is a thrilling read.-Rebecca Jones "BBC" And as the narrative gathers pace it becomes a whodunnit. But it also gives you a thorough grounding in Sri Lankan politics. With ghosts and spirits in the afterlife, it is part supernatural. Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's history.-Tomiwa Owolade "Guardian" But the novel also recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls or Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. ![]() The obvious literary comparisons are with the magical realism of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. ![]() Karunatilaka's novel never courts despair.- "Economist"Ī mix of mischievous magic realism and absurdist humour. Comic, macabre, angry and thumpingly alive. ![]()
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