Book Details

Witty, elegaic and deliciously anarchic -- John le Carre `Unputdownable and darkly hilarious ... A brave, gifted writer' Mohsin Hamid -- Mohsin Hamid A black comedy about a world in crisis * Guardian, Books of the Year 2018 * Irreverent, imaginative and playful * Financial Times * Zesty, highly inventive ... Hanif is a gifted writer * Daily Mail * As grimly, intelligently comic as if written by an Asian Joseph Heller * Daily Telegraph * Pakistan's brightest English-language voice -- Robin Yassin-Kassab * Guardian * Superbly witty and assured -- Kate Saunders * The Times * Exuberant and satirical * Observer * Entertaining ... darkly comic and sharply observed * Independent * One of the subcontinent's most compelling talents * The Scotsman * One of the country's most prominent and provocative novelists * NPR *

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 dehydrating to death isn't what Major Ellie expected from this mission. Still, it's an improvement on the constant squabbles with his wife back home. In the camp, teenager Momo's money-making schemes are failing. His brother left for his first day at work and never returned, his parents are at each other's throats, his dog is having a very bad day, and an aid worker has shown up wanting to research him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind. Written with his trademark wit, keen eye for absurdity and telling important truths about the world today, Red Birds reveals master storyteller Mohammed Hanif at the height of his powers.