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The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments are looking for a miracle, and Alice Bhatti is looking for a job. The story begins with Alice's interview for the position of junior nurse, grade 4. Alice is no ordinary applicant. It is only a few weeks since her release from Borstal. She has returned to her childhood home in the French Colony, where her father continues his work as chief janitor and part-time healer. It seems she has inherited his gift. With the implementation of the working nurse's manual, a bit of inspired improvisation and some help from Lord Yassoo (Jesus), Alice brings succour to the thousands of patients littering the hospital's corridors and concrete courtyards - provoking the jealousies of her fellow nurses, and firing the imaginations of the male staff in the process. Not least young Noor, a former cellmate, now notary at the hospital; nor Teddy Bunt, amateur bodybuilder and apprentice to the nefarious 'Gentleman Squad' of the Karachi police. It seems Alice's troubles are far from over. A Christian in an Islamic world, caught in the red tape of hospital bureaucracy and trapped by the strict caste system, torn between her duty to her patients, to her husband and to her father, Alice finds that her new life is built on foundations as unstable as those of her new home. When a suspect goes missing on his watch, Teddy plunges them both into a danger that perhaps not even a miracle can save them from. But then again, Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse...Filled with wit, colour and pathos, "Our Lady of Alice Bhatti" is a glorious story of second chances, thwarted ambitions and love in unlikely places, set in the febrile streets of downtown Karachi. It is the remarkable new novel from the author of "A Case of Exploding Mangoes".
Hardcover:
9780307958310 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 29, 2012, cover price $25.95
9780224082051 | Vintage Uk, October 6, 2011, cover price $21.95
Paperback:
9780307948946 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 26, 2013), cover price $15.00
9780224094085 | Vintage Uk, October 6, 2011, cover price $21.80 | About this edition: The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments are looking for a miracle, and Alice Bhatti is looking for a job.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781611208078 | Unabridged edition (Ingram Pub Services, May 29, 2012), cover price $59.99
9781611208115 | Mp3 edition (Ingram Pub Services, May 29, 2012), cover price $29.99
Paperback:
9788498382082 | Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions, March 12, 2009, cover price $23.95
A first novel of the first orderâprovocative, exuberant, wickedly cleverâthat reimagines the conspiracies and coincidences leading to the mysterious 1988 plane crash that killed Pakistanâs 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 Ziaâs colonels, committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. Ali is determined to understand what or who pushed his father to such desperationâand to avenge his death.What he quickly discovers is a snarl of events: Americans in Pakistan, Soviets in Afghanistan, dollars in every hand. But Ali remains patient, determined, a touch world-weary (âYou want freedom and they give you chicken kormaâ), and unsurprised at finding Zia at every turn. He mounts an elaborate plot for revenge with an ever-changing crew (willing and not) that includes his silk-underwear-and-cologne-wearing roommate; a hash-smoking American lieutenant with questionable motives; the chief of Pakistanâs secret police, who mistakenly believes heâs in cahoots with the CIA; a blind woman imprisoned for fornication; Uncle Starchy, the squadronâs laundryman; and, not least of all, a mango-besotted crow. General Ziaâdevout Muslim and leering admirer of non-Muslim cleavageâbegins every day by asking his chief of security: âWhoâs trying to kill me?â and the answer lies in a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen . . .Intrigue and subterfuge combine with misstep and luck in this darkly comic book about love, betrayal, tyranny, familyâand a world that unexpectedly resembles our own.
Hardcover:
9781410409607 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 11, 2008), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: A first novel of the first orderâprovocative, exuberant, wickedly cleverâthat reimagines the conspiracies and coincidences leading to the mysterious 1988 plane crash that killed Pakistanâs dictator General Zia ul-Haq.
9780307268075, titled "A Case of Exploding Mangoes: Arc" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 6, 2008, cover price $24.00
Paperback:
9780307388186 | 1 edition (Vintage Books, May 5, 2009), cover price $15.95
9780224082426 | Vintage Uk, June 5, 2008, cover price $20.25
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