Mohammed Hanif

Red Birds

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From the bestselling, prize-winning author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes, comes a powerful new novel about war, family and the things love makes us doAn American pilot crash lands in the desert unprepared for any emergency that can't be solved with the Air Force's emergency supply of After Eight Mints. Hallucinating palm trees and worrying about dehydrating to death isn't what Major Ellie expected from this mission. Still, it's an improvement on the constant squabbles with his wife back home.In a neighbouring refugee camp, Momo has his own problems. His brother left for his first day at work and never returned, his parents are at each other… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4088-9719-5
EAN: 9781408897195
Produktnummer: 25263745
Verlag: Bloomsbury
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.3 cm 326 g
Gewicht: 326

Über den Autor

Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan. He graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel. His second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Prize. He has written the libretto for a new opera Bhutto. He writes regularly for the New York Times, BBC Urdu, and BBC Punjabi. He currently splits his time between Berlin and Karachi.