**A powerful novel about war, family and love, from the bestselling, prize-winning author dubbed 'Pakistan's brightest voice' (*Guardian*)** An American pilot crash lands in the desert and takes refuge in the very camp he was supposed to bomb. Hallucinating palm trees and worrying about dehydra
Red Birds
โ Scribed by Mohammed Hanif
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic;Black Cat
- Year
- 2018;2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic paperback edition;US
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart: His older brother, Ali, left for his first day of work at an American base and never returned; his parents are at each other's throats; his dog, Mutt, is having a very bad day; and an earthy-crunchy aid worker has shown up wanting to research him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind. Amidst the madness, Momo sets out to search for his brother Ali, hoping his new Western acquaintances might be able to help find him. But as the truth of Ali's whereabouts begin to unfold, the effects of American "aid" on this war-torn country are revealed to be increasingly pernicious.
Written with his trademark wit and keen eye for absurdity, and...
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