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Mohammed Hanif delivers a shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love found 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 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 hospital's overflowing patients. 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, and torn between her patients, her father and her husband--who is about to drag Alice into a situation so dangerous that perhaps not even a miracle will be able to save them."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Rambunctious, vulgar, funny and moving, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti wields enormous emotional punch --Time Magazine
This very finely put-together novel sparkles and glitters but never shows off. --The Guardian
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...The prose attains the heights of poetry...Our Lady of Alice Bhatti is profoundly humane, and humanist. --The Guardian
Rambunctious, vulgar, funny and moving, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti wields enormous emotional punch --Time Magazine
This very finely put-together novel sparkles and glitters but never shows off. --The Guardian
`Hanif's storytelling is frequently impressive... touching and unusual' --Literary Review, Faith Brinkley
'Our Lady of Alice Bhatti is a tragicomedy of Shakespearean proportions' --Time Out, Rachel Platt
'I am so gripped by what the book is trying to tell me that I cannot put it down' --Spectator, Melissa Kite
'The wry narrative refreshingly resists all manner of stereotypes and flowery sentimentality' --The Independent, Iman Qureshi
'The writing is superbly witty and assured' --The Times, Kate Saunders
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