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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

✍ Scribed by Hanif, Mohammed

Book ID: 107105129
Tongue: English
Weight: 134 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

From the author of the universally acclaimed debut novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes: a subversive, often shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions, and love in the most unlikely places.

The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments need a miracle, and Alice Bhatti may be just what they′re looking for. She′s the new junior nurse, but that′s the only thing ordinary about her. Her father is a part-time healer in the French Colony, Karachi′s Christian slum РІР‚вЂњ and it seems she has inherited his part-time gift. With a bit of begrudging but inspired improvisation, Alice brings succor to the patients lining the hospital′s corridors. Yet, a Christian in an Islamic world, she is ensnared in the red tape of hospital bureaucracy, trapped by the caste system, and torn between her duty to her patients, her father, and her husband РІР‚вЂњ an apprentice to the nefarious РІР‚

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