| Weight | 0.18 kg |
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| ISBN | 9780099516750 |
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| Publication Date | 2012 |
| Pages | 231 |
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| Author Description | 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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OUR LADY OF ALICE BHATTI
₨ 2,195
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job.
With guidance from the working nurse’s manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital bringing help to the thousands of patients littering the corridors. But her new life isn’t easy and on top of everything else Alice impulsively falls for optimist and loveable good Teddy Butt – a ragtag law enforcement officer by night and a bodybuilder by day.
ISBN: 9780099516750
AUTHOR: MOHAMMAD HANIF
Can Alice and Teddy live happily ever after ? Will the hospital accept her unorthodox ways ? It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse and this is downtown Karachi where the unusual is ordinary…
ISBN: 9780099516750
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Subtitle:
Author: MOHAMMED HANIF
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