A Case of Exploding Mangoes
By
Hanif, Mohammed
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| Price: | $15.00 |
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| Categories: | Novels, General Fiction |
| ISBN: | 9780307269423 |
| Publisher: | Random House, Inc., Knopf Publishing Group |
| Language: | English |
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Helpful Customer Reviews
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Neha (Bombay, India)
Tue Sep 22 2009 01:10
A racy, ironical & comical thriller...
A must read if you like to read satires on political fraternity. The book creates the vulnerable & hidden sides of the some of the most powerful men in the region & probably world.. the story behind the big alliances, cold war, afganistan & the muja...more...
Rashida (Mount Rainier, MD)
Sun Dec 21 2008 16:26
This was an entertaining read, and an interesting take on a period of world history that I confess to not know too much about- but it seems our current state of foreign affairs is quite tied to some of these goings on. Hanif uses his creative license well to illustrate and satirize the Cold War mac...more...
Komal (Karachi, 05, Pakistan)
Fri Mar 26 2010 12:22
Much hype has been created about this book so I was already wary when I picked it up. Hanif uses humor to show the repressiveness of the Zia regime and delivers an amusing and satirical take on the various conspiracy theories surrounding Zia's death - there are a couple of extremely witty and humoro...more...
Junkfoodmonkey (Newcastle Upon Tyne, I7, The United Kingdom)
Sat Apr 11 2009 06:04
Entertaining read with a sympathetic lead character. Narration switches between first person and third person and present and past tense, which sounds like it should be annoying, but is handled so deftly it never is. There's an underlying sense of absurdity to it all, especially when dealing with th...more...
Ilaze (Pakistan)
Sat May 08 2010 08:14
lol,this was one weird book! Very cleverly written n definitely one of its kind. the book is about the famous crash of zia ul haq's plane in Pakistan. the strange part is that, u already know the ending, that the plane will crash...but m.hanif has his own version of why n how it was planned and exec...more...
Peter (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Wed Aug 19 2009 19:28
A truly absorbing first novel by a journalist in Pakistan dealing with the death of General Zia in the 1980s.Often compared to Catch 22 in terms of military novels, it does have elements that make the comparison understandable but Hanif has a new voice, a new sensibility and arises out of a culture ...more...
Shalini (new delhi, India)
Mon Jun 15 2009 02:06
A very interesting read. first i thought i had picked up a non-fiction tracing the history(that's when i had just read the blurb at the back and Hanif being a journalist i just thought it was a serious document on history)...but when i started the book i realised it was fiction-thriller in terms of...more...
Tania (The United States)
Sat Feb 13 2010 21:01
A wry, satirical reimagining of the events leading to the mysterious 1988 plane crash that killed Zia-Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan. Absurdist, black comedy is used to good effect-even Osama Bin Laden makes a cameo, attending an event at the ambassador’s house (the US has helped the Afghani’s ro...more...
Jonathan (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
Sun Jun 07 2009 16:53
This is a skilfully plotted, wonderfully paced, very funny satire about the final days of Zia ul Haq, the Pakistani military dictator who got caught up in America's proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and who died when the aircraft he was travelling in on August 17, 1988 mysteriously explo...more...
Nancy (Hobe Sound, FL)
Fri Sep 05 2008 11:10
Before I read this book, I'd never even heard of Zia ul-Haq, the president of Pakistan who was killed in the crash of a C-130 airplane, along with the American ambassador Arnold Raphel and others. Hanif's wonderful book presents some theories (albeit some needed to be taken tongue-in-cheek) as to wh...more...
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