From the author of the acclaimed "A Case of Exploding Mangoes"
("An insanely brilliant, satirical first novel . . . Belongs in a
tradition that includes "Catch-22"""--The Washington Post"), a
subversively, often shockingly funny new novel set in steaming
Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love in the
most unlikely places.
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments need a
miracle. Alice Bhatti may be just what they're looking for. She's
the new junior nurse, but that's the only ordinary thing about her.
She's just been released from the Borstal Jail for Women and
Children. But more to the point, she's the daughter of a part-time
healer in the French Colony, Karachi's infamous Christian slum, and
it seems she has, unhappily, inherited his part-time gift. With a
bit of begrudging but inspired improvisation, Alice begins to bring
succor to the patients lining the hospital's corridors and camped
outside its gates. But all is not miraculous. Alice is a Christian
in an Islamic world, ensnared in the red tape of hospital
bureaucracy, trapped by the caste system, torn between her duty to
her patients, her father and her husband--who is a former
bodybuilding champion, now an apprentice to the nefarious
"Gentleman's Squad" of the Karachi police, and about to drag Alice
into a situation so dangerous that perhaps not even a miracle will
be able to save them. But, of course, Alice Bhatti is no ordinary
young woman . . .
At once a high comedy of errors and a searing illumination of the
seemingly unchangeable role of women in Pakistan's lower-caste
society, "Our""Lady of Alice Bhatti "is a resounding confirmation
of Mohammed Hanif's gifts of storytelling and of razor-sharp social
satire.
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