Publisher's Synopsis
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and gay man who has not come out of the closet, has woken up dead in what appears to be a heavenly public administration office. His dismembered body sinks into Lake Beira and Maali has no idea who his killer is. In an era in which death squads, bombers and hired thugs are the ones in charge of settling scores, the list of suspects is so long that it is depressing and the specters and ghosts that surround him can attest to However, even in the afterlife, Maali is running out of time. He only has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most in the world and lead them to the secret stash of photographs that will turn Sri Lanka upside down.