Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is compelling about conflict – but not a simple read
Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won this year’s £50,000 prize for a metaphysical thriller about the horrors of civil war. It’s easy to see why the judges liked it, writes Martin Chilton, but a shame to see Claire Keegan miss out for her moving novella