Summary
Hanif combines a journalist's gift for concise, punchy storytelling (he is head of the BBC World Service Urdu section and trained as a pilot in the Pakistani army during Zia's rule) with an affable, laconic, breezy, believable protagonist, Junior Under Officer Ali Shigri, who leads us into hard-to-reach corners of Pakistani society: the presidential bedroom, army barracks, prisons and torture chambers.
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Pakistan's Dark Comedy
Fiction Pakistan's dark comedy A Case of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif Jonathan Cape, 304pp. £12.99
What caused the mysterious plane crash in August 1988 that killed the military dictator Zia ul-Haq, several of his senior generals and the United States ambassador to Islamabad? It is one ...See the full content of this document
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