**A _Washington Post_ , _Rocky Mountain News_ , _Boston Globe_ Best Book of the Year** Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen. Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
โ Scribed by Mohammed Hanif
- Publisher
- Random House, Inc.
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307268071
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โฆ Synopsis
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
**A *Washington Post*, *Rocky Mountain News*, *Boston Globe* Best Book of the Year**Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father's suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide.Ali's target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistani. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-smoking American lieutenant, and a mango-besotted crow, Ali sets his elaborate plan in motion. There's only one problem: the line of would-be Zia assassins is longer than he could have possibly known.
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