The second mystery is that of who was responsible for his death.

For this he must learn how to whisper to the living. He hopes that once they are on display in a gallery people will see what is really going on. These are soon discovered by a government minister and the detectives investigating Maali’s disappearance so he must try to communicate the location of the negatives to his friends. He has left a box of photographs which not only illustrate the brutality of the conflict but also name names of those involved, on all sides. She is tasked with ensuring the newly departed are on the right path and can move on within the seven-moon period each are allotted. Ranee, who is busy trying to deal with numerous ghostly new arrivals to the afterlife, including Maali. He meets Sena, a spirit who tries to recruit Maali to his band of spirits bent on revenge in the service of Mahakali, a fierce deity or demon associated with universal power, time, life, death, and both rebirth and liberation.Īnother character he meets is Dr.

In the afterlife Maali meets several interesting characters, some are former humans still processing their current situation and some simply refusing to move on to whatever comes next, others are demons and spirit animals.

Maali is constantly interrupted by the dead breezing through the afterlife, as he struggles to unravel his own death and ensure his legacy has an impact. The story follows Maali as he deals with an afterlife of administrative red tape, memories of the horrific war, his own ethical dilemmas, and his awkward relationship with his mother, his girlfriend Jaki and his boyfriend DD. Set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the story tells of the challenges and ethical dilemmas of war photographer, Maali Almeida, who is tasked with solving his own murder.

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