A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, black, inventive, and utterly gripping. It
marks the debut of a brilliant new writer. Sales points. • The book has already got
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A Case of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif
Key note: The Indian and Pakistani bestseller of 2008 Description: In August 1988, Zia gets into the presidential plane, Pak One, which explodes midway. 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-swilling jihadi colonel, was murdered by the army? A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, black, inventive, and utterly gripping. It marks the debut of a brilliant new writer.
eBook Pub. Date: October 2011 Price: $ 9.99 ISBN: 9788184002324 Subject: Fiction Rights: India & Pakistan
Sales points • The book has already got extensive press coverage, both nationally and internationally • Winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2008 • Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book prize • Longlisted for the Booker prize • ‘Gripping.’ Dawn • ‘One of the most important Pakistani novels of recent times, unputdownable and darkly hilarious.’ Mohsin Hamid • ‘Hanif couldn’t have announced a more thumping arrival on the literary landscape.’ Business Standard • ‘For once the hyperbole of blurb reaches appropriate justification in the excellence of this debut thriller.’ Hindustan Times • ‘Witty, elegant, and deliciously anarchic.’ John le Carré • ‘At last we have a Pakistani writer who faces up to his political ancestry with... explosive brio.’ India Today • ‘An entertaining and darkly comic political thriller.’ Outlook • ‘A scintillating story.’ Daily Times • Over 46,000 copies sold already. A note on the author Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as a Pilot Officer but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. He has worked for Newsline, India Today and The Washington Post. He is a graduate of University of East Anglia’s creative writing programme and currently heads BBC’s Urdu Service. Mohammed Hanif lives in London.
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