Red Birds, Mohammed Hanif
Red Birds, Mohammed Hanif
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Red Birds

Author: Mohammed Hanif

Narrator: David Bendena

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2019

Synopsis

An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart: his older brother, Ali, left for his first day of work at an American base and never returned; his parents are at each other’s throats; his dog, Mutt, is having a very bad day; and an earthy-crunchy aid worker has shown up wanting to research him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind. Amidst the madness, Momo sets out to search for his brother Ali, hoping his new Western acquaintances might be able to help find him. But as the truth of Ali’s whereabouts begin to unfold, the effects of American “aid” on this war-torn country are revealed to be increasingly pernicious.

About Mohammed Hanif

Mohammed Hanif was born in Pakistan. After leaving the Pakistan Air Force Academy to pursue a career in journalism, he worked for Newsline, India Today, and The Washington Post. He has written plays for the stage and screen, including a critically acclaimed BBC drama and the feature film The Long Night. Hanif is a graduate of University of East Anglia's creative writing programme. He is currently head of BBC's Urdu Service and lives in London.

About David Bendena

David Bendena is an actor and a musician based in the Midwest. His theatre experience over the past twenty years has taken him to stages throughout Chicago, Kansas City, and Michigan. He is very proud to be a member of the Actors Equity Association and to be a Resident Artist with the Purple Rose Theatre Company.

Reviews

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on October 17, 2018

Wow, this novel is greater than the sum of all of its collective parts, even when those components are spectacular in their own right. Firstly, I wish to address the many reviewers who have labelled this as weird, and just like those kids who were labelled as such throughout my school years, all it......more

Goodreads review by Anum on October 19, 2023

Most of the time when I don’t like a book, reviewing it seems like such a burden. I want to simply say "Hated it, don’t read" and be done with the whole reviewing process, but I never thought I’d be saying this about a Mohammad Hanif book. And it’s not just because his other novel, Our Lady of Alice......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 26, 2018

One of several disappointments in this year's Man Booker list was the lack of any non UK/Irish and North American voices, a lack that is increasingly becoming a feature of the prize in recent years. One obvious omission was this book, the latest novel by Mohammed Hanif, who was previously longlisted......more

Goodreads review by Alice on May 05, 2019

Not my cup of tea.......more

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