A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Mohammed Hanif
#5288 of 8,085 books · #1783 in Crime & Thriller
Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2008).
In August 1988, Zia gets into the presidential plane, Pak One, which explodes midway. Who killed him? The army generals growing old waiting for their promotions, the CIA, the ISI, RAW, or Ali Shigri, a junior officer at the military academy whose father, a whisky-swilling jihadi colonel, was murdered by the army? A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, black, inventive, and utterly gripping. It marks the debut of a brilliant new writer.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- ISBN-13
- 9788184002324
- Topics
- Political conspiracy and assassinationMilitary corruption and satireFather-son legacy and revenge
Awards
- The Booker PrizeLonglistedMajor(2008)
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