“A highly unusual page-turner, "A Case of Exploding Mangoes" chronicles the last days of Pakistan's dictator Zia ul-Haq, before he famously died, along with his top generals, in a plane accident.
The tone is highly satirical and farcical, and Mohammed Hanif's prose is sharp, witty and hilarious throughout. One point of view in the novel follows General Zia, while the second is a first-person account of an Air Force cadet who may or may not have a role to play in the General's death. This adds up to a slick story that's impossible to put down, and surprised me at every chapter.”
Daniel Roy wrote this review Thursday, October 15 2009.
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