A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Written by Mohammed Hanif

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38818-6 (0-307-38818-2)

A Washington Post, Rocky Mountain News, Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

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... Read more >

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Written by Mohammed Hanif

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26807-5 (0-307-26807-1)

A first novel of the first order—provocative, exuberant, wickedly clever—that reimagines the conspiracies and coincidences leading to the mysterious 1988 plane crash that killed Pakistan’s dictator General Zia ul-Haq.

At the center is Ali Shigri: Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of Fury Squadron. His father, one of Zia’s... Read more >