Mohammed Hanif Boeken

De roman brengt het verhaal van Ali Shigri. Hij is officier van de Pakistaanse luchtmacht. Hij is ervan overtuigd dat zijn vader in opdracht van dictator Zia al Haq werd vermoord en zint op wraak. Het verhaal komt terecht bij het historische feit, dat in augustus 1988 het vliegtuig neerstortte, waarmee de Pakistaanse president reisde. De geschiedenis van de Amerikaans-Pakistaanse samenwerking om de Afghanen te helpen in hun strijd tegen de Russen, verklaart de huidige aanwezigheid (2008) van Navo-troepen. De auteur confronteert de lezer in deze spannende roman met de vraag: was er sprake van sabotage en wie is er verantwoordelijk? CIA, KGB of een van de generaals die zelf de macht in handen wilde? Of was het Ali? beschrijving: C. H. Gajadin voor Biblion, tekstaanpassingen: JM

But her new life isn't easy and on top of everything else Alice impulsively falls for optimist and loveable good Teddy Butt - a ragtag law enforcement officer by night and a bodybuilder by day. It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse and this is downtown Karachi where the unusual is ordinary ...

"An American pilot crash lands in the desert and takes refuge in the very camp he was suppose to bomb. Hallucinating palm trees and worrying about dehydrating to death isn't what Major Ellie expected from this mission. Still, it's an improvement on the constant squabbles with his wife back at home. In the camp, teenager Momo's money-making schemes are failing. His brother left for his first day at work and never returned, his parents are at each other's throats, his dog is having a very bad day, and an aid worker has shown up wanting to research him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind"--Front dust jacket flap

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A thrilling, razor-sharp critique of US foreign policy ... Red Birds is an incisive, unsparing critique of war and of America's role in the destruction of the Middle East. It combines modern and ancient farcical traditions in thrilling way' Guardian ________________ American pilot Major Ellie has crashed his plane in the middle of a desert. Lucky for him there's room for him at the very refugee camp he was supposed to bomb. Teenage Momo doesn't see it that way: the camp is a trap, not a refuge. His brother's missing, his parents are in a rage, and an aid worker won't stop trying to interview him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind. Savage, irreverent and deliciously dark, Red Birds is a masterful unravelling of intertwined fates in a forgotten war-scape - and a brilliant satire about satire about the absurdity of war and the impossibility of peace. 'Funny, dark, compassionate and angry' Daily Telegraph 'The funniest tragedy I've read in years' Hanif Kureishi 'A blistering, savage, tragicomic satire about the cruelty of war and the impossibility of peace' The Times