Books like A Case of Exploding Mangoes
In 1988 Ali Shigri, a junior officer in the Pakistani air force whose father was found hanged, plots to kill President Zia, who is about to die in a plane crash anyway.
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
In a Nigeria lightly fictionalised, a surgeon and his oldest friend, an engineer about to take up a post at the United Nations, discover that someone is trafficking in body parts from the hospital.
Lost Lambs
The Flynns of a small coastal town are coming apart: the parents' open marriage is failing, and their three daughters each go off the rails, the youngest by investigating the shipping magnate who looms over the town.
Shame
In a country that is and is not Pakistan, two feuding politicians' families are bound by marriage to a girl whose blushes of shame turn into violence.
The Good Terrorist
Alice, a middle-class revolutionary in her thirties, moves in with a group of comrades squatting in a derelict London house and sets about making it a home while they plan something bigger.
Absurdistan
The 325-pound son of a Russian oligarch, barred from returning to his beloved New York, gets caught up in a civil war over oil in a tiny former Soviet republic.
Glory
In the animal kingdom of Jidada, the Old Horse who has ruled for decades is overthrown by his own deputy, and Destiny, a young goat back from exile, watches what happens next.
The Twenty-Seventh City
St. Louis's new police chief, a former Bombay officer, quietly takes over the city through a conspiracy of influence, blackmail and real estate, and only one civic leader resists.
Citizen Vince
Vince Camden, a former mob guy living in Spokane under witness protection, deals cards and runs a credit card scam, and in the week before the 1980 election realises he can vote for the first time.
Vernon God Little
After a shooting at his Texas high school, fifteen-year-old Vernon Little, whose only friend was the killer, finds himself the town's scapegoat.
Dr. No
A mathematics professor whose specialty is nothing is hired by a billionaire who wants to become a Bond villain and needs help stealing the nothing kept in Fort Knox.
The Sympathizer
A communist spy captured after the fall of Saigon writes a confession that becomes a searing meditation on identity, loyalty, and the American war in Vietnam.
Allah Is Not Obliged
Birahima, a ten-year-old orphan from Ivory Coast, sets off to find his aunt in Liberia and becomes a child soldier in the civil wars, telling it all in foul-mouthed, dictionary-checked French.