Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
$29.97
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2012
Summary
‘A tragicomedy of Shakespearean proportions’ - Time Out
From the author of the award-winning, critically-acclaimed debut, A Case of Exploding Mangoes.
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job.
With guidance from the working nurse’s manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital brin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099516750 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099516756 |
| Author: | Mohammed Hanif |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2012 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
Relentlessly readable
Belly-laugh-inducing. Sam Lypsyte funny. Faulty-Towers funny.The silliness is anarchic and profound…a ripping story and a rowdy piece of art * New York Times *Relentlessly readable * Guardian *Alice Bhatti’s Karachi is so alive with sensations that you can smell the sewers, hear the screeching of tyres, and feel the humidity * Scotsman *Superbly witty * The Times *An amusingly anarchic tale of Karachi life * Lady *
About The Author
Mohammed Hanif
Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan, in 1965. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer, but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. He has written plays for the stage and BBC radio, and his film The Long Night has been shown at film festivals around the world. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel in 2008.
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