A photojournalist has one week in the “In Between” of life and death to make his life’s work matter

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Deceased photojournalist Maali Almeida has just seven nights in the afterlife to find out who killed him: Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka is set in 1980s Sri Lanka amid a civil war. The book’s protagonist wakes up dead in Colombo at the start of the book and is informed that he has just seven days in the In Between. Almeida makes it his mission to lead his friend Jaki and her cousin to the stash of photos he has hidden that expose the ravages of the Sri Lankan civil war. Almedia achieved his career goal of taking photos “that will bring down governments. Photos that could stop wars,” but unless his friends can retrieve and disperse them, his efforts will have been in vain.