Mohammed Hanif

A case of exploding mangoes

In August 1988, Zia gets into the presidential plane, Pak One, which explodesmidway. Who killed him? The army generals growing old waiting for their promotions, the CIA,the ISI, RAW or Ali Shigri, a junior officer at the military academy whose father, a whisky-swillingjihadi colonel, was murdered by the army?A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, black, inventive and utterly gripping. It marks the debut ofa brilliant new writer.

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Red Birds

Junior Officer Ali Shigri of the Pakistan Air Force, the son of Colonel Quli Shigri, who had been one of General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq's right-hand men prior to his suicide, struggles to unravel the secrets and motives that led to his father's death and plots his revenge on the Pakistani dictator whom he blames for his father's death. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.

The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job. With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital bringing help to the thousands of patients littering the corridors. But her new life isn't easy and on top of everything else Alice impulsively falls for optimist and loveable good Teddy Butt - a ragtag law enforcement officer by night and a bodybuilder by day. Can Alice and Teddy live happily ever after? Will the hospital accept her unorthodox ways? It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse and this is downtown Karachi where the unusual is ordinary...

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