Category: War

Mohammed Hanif, author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes, brings a Kafkaesque doubleness of purpose to a story of war

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/red-birds-review-zoning-in-on-the-absurdity-of-war-1.3711020?fbclid=IwAR2i-nmrunDjMmLOTGJLAihBuf-ntnSQ3IC7-RoIrd2MIfgbHF97UZCSKKI#.XAJe8mesb8k.facebook In Mohammed Hanif’s third novel Red Birds, US Air Force Major Ellie despairs of mission simulations being “dreamt up by some kid who’d never seen the inside of a…