A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES (REJACKETED) (Paperback)

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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.

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

About 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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