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Show Notes
<div>My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Shehan Karunatilaka, author of last year's Booker Prize winner <em>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida</em>. Shehan tells me about writing a novel whose protagonist is dead on page one, about putting the chaos of Sri Lanka's long civil war on the page, and about the importance of Shakin' Stevens to a teenager in 1980s Colombo.</div>
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