Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
A downed American pilot crash-lands near a desert refugee camp and is rescued by a hustling teenage boy whose older brother vanished after taking a job at a mysterious hangar. Alongside the boy's sharp-tongued dog and a flailing aid worker, their intersecting voices navigate the ruins of a bombed town, the shadowy war economy, and the absurdities of the humanitarian industry. Darkly comic and haunting, the story unspools secrets about complicity and survival as each character seeks a way home in a world remade by endless conflict.
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- Published
- 2018
- Nationality
- Pakistani
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 280-320
- Original Language
- English
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