A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Roman. Winner of The Corine International Book Award, Fiction 2009 and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book 2009. Winner of The Corine International Book Award, Fiction 2009 and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book 2009
(Sprache: Englisch)
A superb debut novel centred around the assassination of the Pakistani dictator General Zia.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008.
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A superb debut novel centred around the assassination of the Pakistani dictator General Zia.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008.
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A superb debut novel centred around the assassination of the Pakistani dictator General Zia.There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Teasing, provocative, and very, very funny, Mohammed Hanif's debut novel takes one of the subcontinent's enduring mysteries and out if it spins a tale as rich and colourful as a beggar's dream.Autoren-Porträt von Mohammed Hanif
Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan, in 1965. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer, but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. He has written plays for the stage and BBC radio, and his film The Long Night has been shown at film festivals around the world. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel in 2008.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mohammed Hanif
- 2009, 304 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0099516748
- ISBN-13: 9780099516743
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.07.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Zesty, highly inventive...Hanif is a gifted writer...His explosive finale is brilliantly constructed" Daily Mail "Exuberant and satirical: this is an angry comedy about Zia's brutal legacy to Pakistan" Observer "Witty, elegaic and deliciously anarchic" -- John Le Carre "A Pakistan not reducible to generals, jets and jihadisa...a debut novel shaped as much by the subcontinents fascination with history and historical figures as by political thrillers in the tradition of Forsyth and Le Carre... Along the way there is plenty of humour and slapstick... Cadet life is entertainingly evoked, overflowing with japes, jerkoffs, hashish highs and liquored lows... The most unexpected aspect of Mangoes is also its most compelling - the wryly told story of a love affair between two cadets" Guardian "Entertaining... darkly comic... There are sharply observed sketches of toadying ministers, mindlessly efficient security chiefs, filthy prison cells, sex-mad Arab sheikhs and erudite communist prisoners...as a piece of political satire, A Case of Exploding Mangoes deserves a high mark" Independent
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Zesty, highly inventive...Hanif is a gifted writer...His explosive finale is brilliantly constructed Daily Mail
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