The Man Behind The Curtain

Long-awaited new fiction from Booker Prize-winning author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, The Man Behind The Curtain is a faced-paced, mind-bending story of power, espionage, nations - and who the hell's behind it all.

NEW FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDAA stranger in a tuk-tuk plans a terror attack in an island nation. A prisoner plots a jail break during a riot. Four girls meet a hologram of their grandfather. An Englishman, a Dutchman and a Portuguese walk into a Victorian bar. And three spies search for a mole amongst them. Five seemingly unrelated tales form pieces of a larger puzzle about power, espionage, relationships, nations and who the hell's behind it all. Told with Shehan Karunatilaka's trademark wit and irony, The Man Behind The Curtain is part thriller, part sci-fi, part tragedy and part absurdist adventure. Teeming with a host of strange voices and unusual characters, The Man Behind The Curtain is a blistering, fast-paced, mind-bending ride from one of our most inventive and enjoyable writers.