The acclaimed novel, “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, has clinched the 2022 Booker Prize. Karunatilaka speaks with The World’s host Marco Werman about why he uses gallows humor and ghost stories to plumb the depths of Sri Lanka’s long-running civil war.
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