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Red Birds

Red Birds

by Mohammed Hanif
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2019
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American pilot Major Ellie has crashed his plane in the middle of a desert. Lucky for him there's room for him at the very refugee camp he was supposed to bomb.

Teenage Momo doesn't see it that way: the camp is a trap, not a refuge. His brother's missing, his parents are in a rage, and an aid worker won't stop trying to interview him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind.

Savage, irreverent and deliciously dark, Red Birds is a masterful unravelling of intertwined fates in a forgotten war-scape – and a brilliant satire about satire about the absurdity of war and the impossibility of peace.

ISBN:
9781408897164
9781408897164
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x22mm
Weight:
0.22kg

"A thrilling, razor-sharp critique of US foreign policy...Red Birds is an incisive, unsparing critique of war and of America's role in the destruction of the Middle East. It combines modern and ancient farcical traditions in thrilling way"
Guardian

"The funniest tragedy I've read in years"
Hanif Kureishi

"Funny, dark, compassionate and angry"
Daily Telegraph

"A novel at once funny, sad and disturbing"
Mail on Sunday

"A blistering, savage, tragicomic satire about the cruelty of war and the impossibility of peace...Hanif writes of violence and bitterness with flashes of hilarity that underline his anger and his humanity"
The Times

Mohammed Hanif

Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan. He graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism.

His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel.

His second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Prize. He has written the libretto for a new opera Bhutto. He writes regularly for the New York Times, BBC Urdu, and BBC Punjabi. He currently splits his time between Berlin and Karachi.

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