A | London, Oct 18 (UNI) "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" by Sri Lankan Shehan Karunatilaka, a supernatural satire set amid a murderous civil war in the island nation, has won the Booker Prize.
The novel is about a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to ask his friends to find his photos and expose the brutality of war, BBC and other media reported.
Camilla, the Queen Consort, presented the prize, and the author said it had been "an honour and a privilege" to be on the shortlist.
Karunatilaka said as he accepted his prize: "My hope is that in the not too distant future... Sri Lanka has understood that these ideas of corruption and race-baiting and cronyism have not worked and will never work."
The writer said he decided in 2009 to write "a ghost story where the dead could offer their perspective" after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, "when there was a raging debate over how many civilians died and whose fault it was".
"I hope it's in print in 10 years... if it is, I hope it's written in a Sri Lanka that learns from its stories, and that Seven Moons will be in the fantasy section of the bookshop, next to the dragons, the unicorns and will not be mistaken for realism or political satire," the BBC reported
He added that he had "self-censored" a couple of short stories after author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in August, having faced years of death threats for his novel "The Satanic Verses", which some Muslims see as blasphemous.
"I was in the process of publishing a collection of short stories when this incident happened, and I discovered a couple which I don't think was offensive to any religion," Karunatilaka said.
"But my wife said, can you not do that? You've got two young kids. This story is not that good. Just leave it out."
He added that "this is something that hangs over all of us if we're writing in South Asia, especially writing about politics or religion", the BBC said.
Head judge Neil MacGregor praised the "scope and the skill, the daring, the audacity and hilarity" of the novel, calling it an "afterlife noir" which "takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey through life and death".
He said the judges' decision had been unanimous, adding all of the shortlisted books were "all really about one question, and that is what's the point of an individual life?"
The prestigious £50,000 prize, for a single work of fiction published in the UK in English, also gives the other five writers on the shortlist £2,500 each.
"The Seven Moons of Maali" is Karunatilaka's second novel, having previously won awards including the Commonwealth Book Prize for his debut book Chinaman, which was called the "second best cricket book of all time" by cricketers' almanac Wisden.
Born in 1975, the writer has also worked as an advertising copywriter, and his songs, scripts and stories have been published in Rolling Stone, GQ and National Geographic.
MacGregor, a former director of London's National Gallery and the British Museum, added that the judges read all 170 books put forward for the prize, then whittled them down to 30. They then re-read those, before deciding on the final six, which they read for a third time, the report said.
The other nominees were: "Glory" by NoViolet Bulawayo, "The Trees" by Percival Everett, "Treacle Walker" by Alan Garner, "Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan and "Oh William!" by Elizabeth Strout.
The Booker-winning novel tells the story of the photographer of its title, who in 1990 wakes up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. With no idea who killed him, Maali has seven moons to contact the people he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos of civil war atrocities that will rock Sri Lanka, the Daily Mirror reported.
The judges were unanimous in their decision to award the prize to Karunatilaka, according to the chair.
Receiving his prize, Karunatilaka addressed the people of Sri Lanka in Tamil and Sinhalese. He summarised what he said in English: “I write these books for you… Let’s keep sharing these stories.”
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is published by the independent press Sort of Books. This year is the first time a book by the publisher has been longlisted for the prize.
Karunatilaka has become the second Sri Lankan-born author to win, following Michael Ondaatje, who won in 1992 with "The English Patient".
In his Guardian review, Tomiwa Owolade said the book’s “scenarios are often absurd … but executed with a humour and pathos that ground the reader”. He added: “Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country’s history.”
Karunatilaka, was born in Galle, Sri Lanka, in 1975 and grew up in Colombo.
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NBA季后赛首轮G1，火箭85-95不敌勇士。这场比赛火箭输球就是在第二节，那段时间进攻端没有打开，被勇士反超后拉开分差，最终造成惨败的出现。赛后火箭遭遇四个坏消息。
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第一个就是他们的命中率问题，全场比赛三分29投仅6中（21%），罚球则是20罚11中（55%）。当这样的命中率出来之后已经足够麻烦了。
C | 如果第二节那段时间命中率提升一下， 火箭也不至于输球。
D | 当然为什么命中率这么差，还是球员自身的能力有关系。不少球员都是靠天赋打球，可惜效率方面还是太难保证了。
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而后场的格林与范弗利特是真让人绝望。格林这场比赛疯狂打铁，当三分不准的情况下，突破还没有任何杀伤力。毕竟勇士给到的强度是足够的，最终造成格林内外线全部都无法打出价值。如果后续三分无法回暖，基本上就废了。范弗利特也是一个大麻烦。作为一个后场持球大核，他一旦出现疯狂出手的情况，大概率就是打铁。而且今天很多空位都无法把握，这两个人迷失之后，对于球队的影响是致命的。
伊森这场比赛的弊端也已经出来了。勇士针对他的投篮不行，然后进行疯狂针对。最终造成的结果就是他在进攻端持续打铁。即便他在防守端的发挥可以，无奈攻守完全无法保持一个稳定输出。再加上投篮姿势也不是很好，他在进攻端的麻烦或许会持续保持下去。
史密斯却无法给到任何地位，在整个赛季，史密斯的球权一直都非常差，不管有没有手感，他就蹲在底角没人传球，这就很莫名其妙。
F | 也希望后续的比赛可以给到史密斯一些尊重吧，他不仅三分命中率精准，而且可以各种大打小。如果他这个点挖掘出来之后，可以让火箭在进攻端变得更加灵活。
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