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Red Birds
Red Birds
hardback | English
Published:
18 October, 2018
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781408897188 |
| ISBN10 | 1408897180 |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Item Weight | 419 g |
| Product Dimensions | 143 x 28 x 224 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
Witty, elegaic and deliciously anarchic -- John le Carre
Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds is a marvel, describing the interlinked fates of antagonists in a forgotten war-scape - and the complicity of our own sheltered lives in remote conflicts -- Pankaj Mishra * Guardian, Summer Reading 2018 *
Unputdownable and darkly hilarious ... A brave, gifted writer -- Mohsin Hamid
A black comedy about a world in crisis * Guardian, Books of the Year 2018 *
Irreverent, imaginative and playful * Financial Times *
Zesty, highly inventive ... Hanif is a gifted writer * Daily Mail *
As grimly, intelligently comic as if written by an Asian Joseph Heller * Daily Telegraph *
Pakistan's brightest English-language voice -- Robin Yassin-Kassab * Guardian *
Superbly witty and assured -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Exuberant and satirical * Observer *
Entertaining ... darkly comic and sharply observed * Independent *
One of the subcontinent's most compelling talents * The Scotsman *
One of the country's most prominent and provocative novelists * NPR *
Author's Bio
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 Bhutto. He writes regularly for the New York Times, BBC Urdu, and BBC Punjabi. He currently splits his time between Berlin and Karachi.