Мохаммед Ханиф – лучшие книги

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…

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.

There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.
Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Was it because of:
1.Mechanical failure
2.Human error
3.The CIA's impatience
4.A blind woman's curse
5.Generals not happy with their pension plans
6.The mango season
Or could it be your narrator, Ali Shigri?
A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, dark, inventive and utterly gripping.

В книге Мохаммеда Ханифа, британского и пакистанского журналиста и писателя, ведущего ежемесячную колонку обозревателя в газете The New York Times, в художественном стиле излагается вариант гибели пакистанского диктатора Зия уль-Хака. Автор родился в ноябре 1964 в Окара, Пакистан. Закончил пакистанскую Академию ВВС в должности офицера-пилота, но перешел в профессию журналиста. Сперва работал для журнала Newsline и писал материалы для газет The Washington Post и India Today, затем закончил Университет East Anglia. В 1996 г. переехал в Лондон и стал работать на Би-Би-Си; позже стал главой службы Би-Би-Си на урду в Лондоне. Вернулся в Пакистан в 2008 г.