Mohammed Hanif

Red Birds

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Produktbeschreibung

From the prize-winning author hailed as "Pakistan's brightest voice" ( Guardian), comes a powerful and darkly satirical novel about the the harsh, absurd hypocrisies of American intervention in the Muslim world

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 141mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780802147288
• ISBN-10: 0802147283
• Artikelnr.: 54153057

Autorenporträt

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 and writes regularly for the New York Times, BBC Urdu, and BBC Punjabi. He currently splits his time between Berlin and Karachi.

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