A Case of Exploding Mangoes (edit title)

plumenator edited the books that influenced this book of A Case of Exploding Mangoes Tuesday, October 20 2009.

• Added Charlie Wilson's War Mentioned by the author as influence.
• marked the description of Charlie Wilson's War as not a spoiler

plumenator edited the books like this book of A Case of Exploding Mangoes Tuesday, October 20 2009.

• Added The Mammaries of the Welfare State Critique of bureaucracy, drug use, profanity.
• marked the description of The Mammaries of the Welfare State as not a spoiler
• Added English August: Indian Story Critique of bureaucracy, drug use, profanity.
• marked the description of English August: Indian Story as not a spoiler

Timothy Gray approved Trinelouise’s request to combine 4 books, including A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Sunday, October 4 2009.

Trinelouise submitted a request to combine 4 books, including A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Friday, October 2 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of A Case of Exploding Mangoes Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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 colonels, committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. Ali is determined to understand what or who pushed his father to such desperation—and 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 (“You want freedom and they give you chicken korma”), 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 Pakistan’s secret police, who mistakenly believes he’s in cahoots with the CIA; a blind woman imprisoned for fornication; Uncle Starchy, the squadron’s laundryman; and, not least of all, a mango-besotted crow. General Zia—devout Muslim and leering admirer of non-Muslim cleavage—begins every day by asking his chief of security: “Who’s trying to kill me?” 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, family—and a world that unexpectedly resembles our own.

Babur Idris edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of A Case of Exploding Mangoes Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added: The book itself is a ridiculously simple synopsis essentially dealing in conjecture and hearsay

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Case of Exploding Mangoes Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Mohammed Hanif: (Primary Author)