The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ^Béarla (Q114732705)

Maali’s life bears a more than coincidental similarity to that of the Sri Lankan journalist Richard de Zoysa, who was abducted and killed in Colombo in 1990. (Béarla)

Rajini Thiranagama

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Foreign Policy ^Béarla

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https://foreignpolicy.com./2023/01/07/seven-moons-maali-almeida-booker-prize-karunatilaka-sri-lanka-literature-history/

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This non-reply comes via the afterworld-weary but patient Helper, Dr. Ranee Sridharan, one of the In Between’s reigning bureaucrats. Dr. Ranee is based on Rajani Thiranagama, a doctor and professor of anatomy at the University of Jaffna’s medical school. (Béarla)

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FIFTH MOON / Fuji Kodak shop / 'Man, I loved your Ninja film.' / 'Which one? Enter the Ninja or Ninja 3: The Domination?' (Béarla)

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Enter the Ninja

Menahem Golan

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訳者あとがき p.297 / p.302 / 実在の人物から [...] また、イスラエル人の武器商人二人組、ヤエル・メナヘムとゴーラン・ヨラムが映画監督メナヘム・ゴーランから名前を借りているのは、監督作『燃えよＮＩＮＪＡ』シリーズのタイトルが本文中に登場することからも明らかだ。 (Seapáinis)

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Menahem Golan

Enter the Ninja

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

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SWRD

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SECOND MOON / Chat with Dead Bodyguard (1959) / 'My last job was protecting Solomon Dias.' / 'Who?' / 'SWRD.' (Béarla)

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訳者あとがき p.297 / p.303 / いっぽうで、政治家などの著名人が実名で登場するケースもある。「シンハラ・オンリー政策」を推し進めたＳ・Ｗ・Ｒ・Ｄ・バンダーラナーヤカがそのひとりで、冥界でマーリとからむ悪霊が生前彼のボディガードだったという設定になっている。 (Seapáinis)

Mahinda Rajapaksa

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Foreign Policy ^Béarla

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https://foreignpolicy.com./2023/01/07/seven-moons-maali-almeida-booker-prize-karunatilaka-sri-lanka-literature-history/

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The Seven [...] While Karunatilaka’s story is set in 1990, he dances over the timeline of the country’s history lightly and with elegance, invoking everything from Sri Lanka’s year of independence (1948, when upper-crust Tamil and Sinhalese politicians shamefully joined hands to disenfranchise Tamil workers from the upcountry tea plantations) to the future, via a mention of a young parliamentarian named Rajapaksa. (Béarla)

Kali ^Béarla

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Mahakali (Kali, Hinduism deity)

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Foreign Policy ^Béarla

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https://foreignpolicy.com./2023/01/07/seven-moons-maali-almeida-booker-prize-karunatilaka-sri-lanka-literature-history/

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This non-reply [...] They are accompanied by the ghosts of car crash victims, those who died by suicide, and others, as well as a terrifying demon, the Mahakali, whose body pulses with those who have given her their souls and given up The Light in pursuit of vengeance. (Béarla)

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訳者あとがき p.297 / p.303 / さらに、この虚実ないまぜの物語が東西の宗教や神話から自由にエッセンスを取り入れていることにも触れておきたい。冥界最強の悪霊マハカーリーは、ヒンドゥー教の破壊と死を司る女神カーリーからビジュアルの一部と名前を借りている。 (Seapáinis)