Author:Mohammed Hanif
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job.
With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital bringing help to the thousands of patients littering the corridors. But her new life isn’t easy and on top of everything else Alice impulsively falls for optimist and loveable good Teddy Butt - a ragtag law enforcement officer by night and a bodybuilder by day.
Can Alice and Teddy live happily ever after? Will the hospital accept her unorthodox ways? It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse and this is downtown Karachi where the unusual is ordinary …
Belly-laugh-inducing. Sam Lypsyte funny. Faulty-Towers funny.The silliness is anarchic and profound…a ripping story and a rowdy piece of art
—— New York TimesRelentlessly readable
—— GuardianAlice Bhatti's Karachi is so alive with sensations that you can smell the sewers, hear the screeching of tyres, and feel the humidity
—— ScotsmanSuperbly witty
—— The TimesAn amusingly anarchic tale of Karachi life
—— LadyMurakami reveals throughout, along with turn-on-a-sixpence plotting and joyous satirical energy, a old-fashioned interest and accomplishment in creating a corps of living characters: exotic and eccentric, but always real
—— ScotsmanA world-class writer who takes big risks. . . . If Murakami is the voice of a generation then it is the generation of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo.
—— The Washington Post Book WorldA Japanese Phillip K. Dick with a sense of humor . . . [Murakami belongs] in the topmost ranks of writers of international stature.
—— NewsdayLoaded with . . . mystery, mysticism, sex and rock 'n' roll. . . . Fast-moving and funny. . . . The narrative voice . . . pulls like a diesel.
—— Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe plot is addictive.
—— Detroit Free PressThere are novelists who dare to imagine the future, but none is as scrupulously, amusingly up-to-the-minute as . . . Murakami.
—— NewsdayVintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels
—— Los Angeles Times Book Review[A] treat...Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done
—— Baltimore SunMurakami's most famous coming of age novel of love, loss and longing
—— Dazed and ConfusedCatches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love... It is also, for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze consciousness of many of its characters, often funny and quirkily observed.
—— Times Literary Supplement[A] treat . . . Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done.
—— The Baltimore SunOne of the most poignant and evocative novels I have ever read
—— PalantinatePoignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates heartbreak and loss of faith
—— Sunday TimesQuinn brings the period in question vividly to life: his research is exemplary, and his subject absorbing
—— Lucy Scholes , ObserverAll the ingredients of an upmarket page-turner
—— Max Davidson , Mail on SundayAmbitious, gripping and disturbingly well done
—— Kate Saunders , The TimesBeyond its splendid feel for the era’s chat and patter, the novel pits philanthropy and opportunism, ideals and selfishness, bracingly at odds
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentThis novel is refreshingly different and contains a cornucopia of wonderful material and evocative descriptions
—— Good Book GuideThe best book I’ve read in ages… You have to read it.
—— Hilary Rose , The Times
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